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Critic and journalist Karrie Jacobs is the author of The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home,[] to be published by Viking in August 2006. She is also a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine where she writes a regular column[] about how ideas and strategies in architecture and design play out on the American landscape. And she’s a regular contributor to Travel + Leisure.

Jacobs was the founding editor-in-chief of Dwell (magazine), a San Francisco-based magazine about modern residential architecture and design. During her tenure, she established Dwell as a forum for innovative ideas in housing design and spearheaded the development of a unique, naturalistic approach to photographing homes.

Prior to launching Dwell in fall of 2000, Jacobs served as the architecture critic of New York Magazine, where she championed the cause of architects and builders who were, in a conservative environment, willing to take risks. She has written about design, technology, and visual language for many periodicals including The New York Times, ID, and Fortune and is the co-author of Angry Graphics (Gibb Smith,1992).

In the early 1990s, Jacobs was the founding executive editor of Benetton’s Colors Magazine, part of a team that included graphic designer Tibor Kalman as editor and photographer Oliviero Toscani as creative director. There she was instrumental in devising simple, clear strategies for telling complex stories about world cultures and politics.