As a pioneer in design for additive manufacturing and 3d-printing Stephan Henrich works at the intersection of architecture, narration, design and robotics.

Besides his design studio, he is running THE CRYPTIDE, his design label for 3D-printed footwear and 3D-printed accessories in Stuttgart, Germany.

Stephan studied architecture in Stuttgart and Paris and he worked in architecture and engineering offices e.g. Schlaich Bergermann and Partner and Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering, Juergen Mayer H, Berlin and R&Sie(n) Architects, Paris.
With R&Sie(n) Architectes he worked as an associate in numerous projects e.g. shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008, 2010, 2018), the Musée des Arts Moderns, MAM/Paris, the Tinguely Museum, Basel, Kunsthaus Graz and Mori Center, Tokyo.
He realized robotic projects for the french artist Philippe Parreno.
Since 20214 Stephan is a partner in FESTO's Bionic Learning Network where developed e.g. the 3D Cocooner a 3D-printing robot that builds endless fiber-reinforced lattice structures freely in space.
Stephan was a visiting associate professor at USC in Los Angeles. He has taught at the Die Angewandte in Vienna, U-Penn in Philadelphia, Cornell University, NY and the Architectural Association London and was a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck.
He was a fellow at the Akademie Solitude in Stuttgart.
Stephan has held lectures e.g. at the École national supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais; Städelschule, Frankfurt; at U-Penn, Philadelphia; at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA and at European Robotic Forum 2023 in Odense, Denmark.