Something about construction attracts, fascinates, and excites just about everyone. Can you walk past a construction site and not turn and look at what’s going on? Some people come back day after day to watch. Others build careers out of this seemingly natural interest.
Part of this attraction might indeed come from nature. Think about the similarities between our human construction activities and those of other social and communal mammals and insects. What might initially appear to be chaotic comings and goings of prairie dogs, birds, bees, and ants turns out to be the necessary ingredients for constructing elaborate systems of travel, storage, breeding, living, and sleeping spaces. Whether driven by innate biological impulses to produce honey or blueprints to produce a 100-story skyscraper, the process is the same: a series individual tasks add up to infrastructure, shelter, and the satisfaction of need.