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Skin of Glass

Season 26 Episode 12

How the turbulent history of her architect father's iconic building reflects Brazil's own struggles.

A journey to reckon with Brazil’s harsh inequality begins when filmmaker Denise Zmekhol discovers her father’s architectural masterpiece in São Paulo—a 24-story tall modernist icon known as “Pele de Vidro” (Skin of Glass)—is inhabited by hundreds of unhoused people. But after getting to know these occupants, what started as a personal quest becomes something much bigger.

AIR DATE 2/17/25

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