Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

Los Angeles's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels rose after the 1994 earthquake finished off Saint Vibiana's, the city's cracked nineteenth-century mother church, and Cardinal Roger Mahony chose to build fresh rather than repair it. The guide follows architect Rafael Moneo's deliberately unconventional design, chosen over dozens of competing firms, and the criticism that met its concrete walls and steep price tag. It traces how pieces of the old cathedral found new life inside the one that replaced it.