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, published by Viking. She is also a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine where she writes a monthly column, “America,” about how ideas and strategies in architecture and design play out on the landscape. And she’s a regular contributor to Travel + Leisure.
Jacobs was the founding editor-in-chief of Dwell, a San Francisco-based magazine about modern residential architecture and design.
Prior to launching Dwell in fall of 2000, Jacobs served as the architecture critic of New York Magazine, and she has written about design, technology, and visual language for many periodicals including The New York Times, ID, and Fortune. She is the co-author with Steven Heller of Angry Graphics (Gibb Smith,1992) and in the early 1990s, Jacobs was the founding executive editor of Benetton’s Colors Magazine.
She lives in downtown Brooklyn.