ABSTRACT
In the creative individual’s mind, more often than not there is no precise line between invention and borrowing, between originality and appropriation. The unconscious subliminal aspect of human creativity is not easily measured by either the activator, producer, participant, or observer. During the architectural design process (the most important conceptual activity in imagining a future building), an awareness of appropriation can be blurred by mental fevers in devising, contriving, discovering, even puzzling. They can be subverted by hidden mental dishonesties induced by ignorance, fantasy, unconscious acts, and self-imposition. Receiving and applying inspiration is inherently a personal riddle.
