In young adulthood, Gebert enrolled at UCLA, transferred to University of Southern California, and eventually earned a bachelor's degree in architecture, at age 25-years, from MIT's Department of Architecture in 1966,[REF] and a master's degree from Princeton University in 1968.
Gebert married his second wife Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar College in 1986 [REF].