Francisco Mañosa

Mañosa died on 20 February 2019, due to prostate cancer. He was 88. Mañosa's remains received full state honors when laid to rest at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.

In 2012, Mañosa fell and cracked two vertebrae which had to be fused in order to heal. He also needed heart bypass surgery in order to repair a life-threatening ventricular blockage.

By the 2010s, Mañosa was a retired but decorated architect. His three children all work for the family company, Mañosa & Company. Isabel ("Bambi"), the eldest and only daughter, is the head of the interior design department, as well as a director of Tukod Foundation, a foundation of the Mañosa Group which advocates the advancement of Filipino design, art and aesthetics. Francisco Jr. ("Dino") acts as CEO of the entire Mañosa Group, and is the founder and CEO of Mañosa Properties. Francisco's youngest son, Angelo ("Gelo"), carries on his father's architectural legacy as the CEO of Mañosa & Company.

Cardinal Sin asked Mañosa to reconsider, so Mañosa came back and developed a new "People’s Plaza" design which would be used for the actual project. The EDSA Shrine was completed in 1989.

After the Marcoses were sent into exile in 1986, Jaime Cardinal Sin of the Archdiocese of Manila began conceiving of a shrine that would celebrate the People Power Revolution which had deposed them. Cardinal Sin's appeal for people to rally in the streets had played a pivotal role in assuring that the uprising succeeded without the need for bloodshed, and Philippines' large Catholic majority characterized its success a "miracle." So the Cardinal approached Mañosa about designing a shrine commemorating the event.

The project became controversial, because the opulent design was paid for with government funds and was soon cited as a prominent example of Marcos' Edifice Complex excesses. The palace was completed in time for Pope John Paul II's visit in 1981 for the beatification of Lorenzo Ruiz. Mrs Marcos invited him to stay at the newly constructed palace, but the offer was declined by the Pope because it was too opulent given the level of poverty in the Philippines. But it eventually became a guest house for celebrity visitors of the Marcoses until they were deposed and exiled by the civilian-backed People Power Revolution in 1986.

Between 1971 and 1975, the Saint Joseph Parish Church, home of the Las Piñas Bamboo Organ, and the surrounding buildings were restored to their 19th-century state by Mañosa and partner Ludwig Alvarez, through the administration of Rev. Fr. Mark Lesage, CICM, to bring back the 19th-century look of the church and to re-position the main altar to face the people, as required by the new Ecumenical Church guidelines.

Francisco "Bobby" Tronqued Mañosa (12 February 1931 – 20 February 2019) was a Filipino architect considered one of the most influential Filipino architects of the 20th century for having pioneered the art of Philippine neovernacular architecture. His contributions to the development of Philippine architecture led to his recognition as a National Artist of the Philippines for Architecture in 2018.

Mañosa was born in Manila, Philippines on 12 February 1931, growing up in a genteel neighborhood on Azcarraga Street (later renamed Recto Avenue). His parents were María Tronqued, one of the early actresses of Philippine Cinema, and Manuel Mañosa Sr., a Harvard-educated sanitary engineer who was director of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System from 1947 to 1955.