Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, Nosso Querido Arquiteto

A poetic and personal cinematic meditation on displacement and loss, SKIN OF GLASS follows filmmaker Denise Zmekhol’s journey after discovering that her late father's most celebrated work as an architect, a modernist glass skyscraper in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil, has become occupied by hundreds of homeless families.

On a trip across the country, director Alberto Renault visits residential architecture in a meeting with architects and residents.