American Building is a weekly recorded podcast that opens the door to what we build in America and why we do it. An architect turned developer and startup founder, host Atif Z. Qadir, AIA, explores urgent issues related to design & development and what they can teach us about ourselves and our country. Profound, surprising, and hilarious, this show is for real estate industry and anyone curious about it. Take a trip across the country and into the construction sites that show us the range of buildings and builders in America. In 2023, we are uncovering what “home” means to all types of Americans today, in Season 3, and what problems Americans face in getting the home they want for themselves and their families, in Season 4. We’ll take a roadtrip across the country, visiting urban centers with deepening imbalances of housing supply and demand, resort towns that boomed in the pandemic, industrial regions dealing with dwindling tax bases and rural areas losing population. We’ll find out how federal & state policy, local entitlements, design & construction processes, access to capital and distribution & ownership are making it hard, not easy, to house Americans. We’ll get to the heart of these confusing topics and personalize them through a new generation of American builders and their work.