京特·海恩于1947年出生在德国德累斯顿市，曾在柏林、慕尼黑和苏黎世学习建筑和工程学，后来在慕尼黑工业大学获得博士学位。1978年以来，京特·海恩在慕尼黑和柏林开设自己的 HENN Architekten 工作室。现在他是德累斯顿理工大学教授及麻省理工史隆管理学院客座教授。他曾负责很多创新的建筑设计，包括宝马研究和创新中心，位于沃尔夫斯堡的大众汽车城，还有德累斯顿市的透明工厂，新建的捷克斯柯达汽车装配车间，以及慕尼黑工业大学的机械工程系大楼。

Gunter Henn was born in 1947 in Dresden, Germany. He studied architecture and engineering in Munich, Berlin, and Zurich. He earned his doctorate at the Technical University, Munich. Since 1978, he has his own offices, HENN Architekten, in Munich and Berlin. He is currently a visiting professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Professor at the Technical University in Dresden. He has been responsible for many innovative building designs, including the BMW Research and Innovation Centre, the Automobile City in Wolfsburg for Volkswagen, as well as the Transparent Factory in Dresden, a novel auto-assembly plant for Skoda in the Czech Republic and the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering for the Technical University in Munich.