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Ar. Juan Marcos de Guzmán Arellano was a Filipino painter and architect, best
known as the architect of Manila’s Metropolitan Theater, the Manila Post Office
Building, Jones Bridge and the development of Quezon City. He was born into a
cultured, artistic family then Juan attended the Ateneo Municipal and graduated in
1908. His first interest was reportedly painting and he trained under Lorenzo Guerrero,
the “Ermita Master,” Toribio Antillon, and Fabian de la Rosa. Arellano went to the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1911 and then transferred to Drexel to finish
his bachelor’s degree in Architecture. He was trained in the Beaux Arts and
subsequently went to work for George B. Post & Sons in New York City, where he met
and collaborated with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.