How to Build a House: Architectural Research in the Digital Age

Discover the DFAB HOUSE and the pioneering collaboration of Gramazio Kohler Research & Digital Building Technologies of ETH Zürich.

Discover nextcasts

Explore the emergent future with our new podcast series highlighting the people and ideas from swissnex San Francisco.

This is the House a Robot Built

We talked to three of the architects behind the DFAB House to explore the impact of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and robotics on the future of architecture and construction.
San Francisco

Gallery

Connecting Switzerland and San Francisco through events and exhibitions.
nextrends

Emergent Futures Report 001: Reimagining Mobility

The Emergent Futures Report identifies global signals of transformation, shaped by research & conversations with innovators in academia, industry, and the arts. Our first report focuses on how we might navigate the megacities of tomorrow.

nextcasts

nextcasts is our platform to share conversations with the interesting people we connect with, and ideas on the forces shaping the emergent future.

Startups

swissnex San Francisco connects startups to the local network, tools, techniques, training, and office space in the Bay Area.

Partners

We work in partnership with an ever-widening group of individuals and organizations.

Residents

Entrepreneurs, organizations, and individuals share our space and help carry out our mission.

Corporate Innovation

swissnex San Francisco brings together a diverse community of universities, startups, corporates , artists and designers in our living lab at Pier 17.

Universities

We connect Swiss and Bay Area universities, researchers and academics, fostering the international exchange of research and ideas.

Artists

We facilitate Swiss artists promotion and cultural exchanges in the field of art-technology and art-sciences with a particular attention to the specific domains of: digital creation, interactive media, design and architecture.