Maria Mauti

The memory of Piero Portaluppi, a Milanese architect who reached the peak of his fame during the 20 years of the Fascist regime, comes back to life, both through the rediscovery of his work today and in a previously unpublished film diary in 16 mm, shot and edited throughout his lifetime. A man of great charm and power, Portaluppi lived through a grandiose but tragic era with ironic detachment, as if dancing across things as he created beauty. History marches on implacably, radically transforming the arena in which the eclectic artist and his large family lived and worked.

The film Miralles tells, as in a novel, the vision of the world of one of the most important Spanish architects of the contemporary international scene. Enric Miralles dies at the age of 45 from a brain tumor. The next day he is buried in his masterpiece, the Igualada Cemetery, an unfinished forest-cemetery. From that moment on, his life and his work are inextricably linked. The film unfolds in variations, following Miralles' own creative method inspired by Giacometti. A search without the possibility of conclusions, as in the extraordinary and complex Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, one of the architect's last works and also one of his magisterial works.