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Travel + Leisure contributing editor 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 in 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.

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. 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).