José María Zaragoza

José María Vélez Zaragoza (December 6, 1912 – November 26, 1994) was a Filipino architect.

Education Zaragoza took up BS Architecture at the University of Santo Tomas where he graduated in 1936. He placed 7th in the licensure exams in the 1938.

He also had a diploma in liturgical art and architecture from the Rome-based International Institute of Liturgical Art. At the Hilversum Technical Research Center in the Netherlands, he obtained a diploma in comprehensive planning. This church building, dedicated in 1975, was torn down in the late 1990s to make room for a new Union Church of Manila on a portion of the same site.

Zaragoza also designed the Saint John Bosco and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.

Other buildings Zaragoza also designed the Meralco Building, the original Virra Mall (now V-Mall) and the Zaragoza building, and he contributed to the design of the National Library of the Philippines and to the design of the Bataan Power Plant of the National Power Corporation.