Mañosa & Company
Mañosa & Company is a Metro Manila architecture practice specializing in residential, neovernacular, resort, in practice since 1976. Mañosa & Company is the practice that gave Philippine architecture its "Designing Filipino" idiom: the bahay-kubo and bahay-na-bato reimagined in indigenous materials such as bamboo, coconut lumber, capiz, adobe and araal stone.
Selected projects
What they do
Mañosa & Company is the practice that gave Philippine architecture its "Designing Filipino" idiom: the bahay-kubo and bahay-na-bato reimagined in indigenous materials such as bamboo, coconut lumber, capiz, adobe and araal stone. Its work runs from heritage homes to resort and master-planned-community architecture across the country.
The firm was founded in 1976 by National Artist for Architecture Francisco "Bobby" Mañosa (1931–2019), one of the most influential Filipino architects of the 20th century and the designer of the Coconut Palace (1981) and the EDSA Shrine (1989). It carries on through his son Angelo "Gelo" Mañosa, whose studio A. Mañosa + Architects continues the neovernacular line.
Signature works span the Coconut Palace at the CCP Complex, the island resorts of Amanpulo and Pearl Farm, and recent projects such as the Likha Residences in Davao (2024) and the Tagô community in Tagaytay. With landscapers and environmental planners on staff, the practice treats garden, terrain and building as one composition, a natural fit for landscape-led work.
Architects
- Francisco Mañosafounder · past
- Angelo Mañosaprincipal
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View profile →Public records referenced
- National Artist for Architecture (2018); Francisco Mañosa (1931–2019), a defining figure of Filipino neovernacular architecture.
- Coconut Palace (1981) and EDSA Shrine (1989) are among the firm founder's landmark works.
- Led by Gelo Mañosa via A. Mañosa + Architects; in-house team includes landscapers and environmental planners; recent work includes Tagô, Tagaytay.
- Punta Fuego (Nasugbu, Batangas) beachfront retreat with a cantilevered third-floor pool, by A. Mañosa + Architects; BluPrint Volume 1, 2025.