Jesse Simon

Jesse Simon is a writer, editor and lecturer based in Berlin; he is director of the Berlin Typography Project and its sister project Berlin_Texture

Posts by Jesse Simon

Back to the Future: Berlin’s ICC

May 1, 2022 - Jesse Simon explores Berlin’s controversial conference centre, inside and out…

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Karl-Marx-Allee

August 29, 2021 - Jesse Simon untangles some of the contradictions behind one of Berlin’s most fascinating streets…

Interbau ’57: Exploring Berlin’s Hansaviertel

March 11, 2021 - Jesse Simon takes a stroll through the Hansaviertel, yesterday’s city of tomorrow…

Another Grey World: Brutalism in Berlin

January 24, 2021 - Jesse Simon visits some of Berlin’s notable Brutalist–and Brutal-ish–buildings…

Luxuriously Bland: Berlin’s Newly Extended U5

December 8, 2020 - Jesse Simon takes a ride on the newest addition to Berlin’s public transport network…

A farewell to Tegel

November 8, 2020 - Jesse Simon bids an emotional ‘adieu’ to one of the city’s cold war concrete throwbacks…

Utopian Visions

October 6, 2020 - Jesse Simon on Berlin’s modernist housing estates…

The Staatsoper Baustelle

July 11, 2014 - Jesse Simon explores the past and future of Unter den Linden’s Opera House…

A Tour Of Berlin’s Cemeteries

April 7, 2014 - Jesse Simon discovers some of Berlin’s former movers and shakers via the city’s ‘honoured graves’…