When AI Entered Architecture's Holy of Holies

Artificial intelligence enters the architect's studio in this poem of chapters, which opens when the line was still a prayer. The machine asks for the city's key, a beautiful image is laid before an investor, an engineer, a gardener and a cleaner, and a mother carrying a sleeping child and a man leaning on a cane correct the plan with their bodies. A generated Damascus offers every courtyard and ornament while no one calls the narrator's name, the hands of forgotten craftsmen ask who owns the beauty, and a confident answer collapses when an engineer checks its sources. Years later the narrator stands before the finished building, where a shaded bench, a child's book and a held door show the place left for the human being.