Karrie Jacobs

Karrie Jacobs is a contributing editor for ARCHITECT and a faculty member at School of Visual Arts’ graduate program in Design Research, Writing, and Criticism. The author of The Perfect $100,000 House (Viking, 2006), Jacobs was the founding editor-in-chief of Dwell magazine.

Latest Articles by Karrie Jacobs

Letter from New York
Building a Better Normal
15 MIN READ
Letter from the Meadowlands
The American Dream In Limbo
12 MIN READ
Books
The Forgotten History of Our First Skyscrapers
7 MIN READ
Letter from New York
The Inevitable Nature of the New Moynihan Train Hall
7 MIN READ
COVID-19
The Power of the Printer
13 MIN READ

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