Thoughts on the L.A. Cathedral

September 2, 2002

It's architecture for the ages. It's not designed to be a piece of contemporary architecture like Disney Hall. The cathedral is making a different sort of statement--it's a statement of permanence.
Eli Broad
Developer, philanthropist


Either it will be the beachhead for a new spirit of the city, or it's going to be a monument to things best left behind. If the people want this, then people deserve it. If it's just Taj Mahony, then why do it?
Tomas Benitez
Executive director
of the East Los Angeles
art gallery Self-Help Graphics


It's very beautiful. But, like Disney Hall, it's hard to get to. I would put to it the same criticism I would put to my own building: These are oases right now.
Frank O. Gehry
Architect


I'm always a little bit opposed to buildings that are right up to the curb; I like edifices that sit back from the street.
Maxine Waters
Congresswoman


It is very different from any European cathedral that I've ever seen. Moneo's architecture provides a more intimate relationship between the worshiper and what a cathedral means; the size is not so grandiose that the worshiper feels diminished.
Rabbi Uri D. Herscher
Skirball Cultural Center president and chief executive


He has created a grand opera, but out of stone.
Plácido Domingo
Artistic director, Los Angeles Opera


It recalls rather dramatically, by engaging a Spanish architect, Los Angeles to its Spanish Catholic roots, which the city has deliberately tried to ignore, in its purposeful blond way, for the past 150 years.
Richard Rodriguez
Author

 




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