Harald Salling Mortensen

Harald Søren Salling-Mortensen was a Danish architect from Esbjerg who mainly worked in an around Aarhus in the early 20th century. Salling-Mortensen was born in Esbjerg on 6 July 1902 to Morten Mortensen, later the mayor of Esbjerg, and Augusta Elisabeth Salling.

He became a master carpenter in 1921, graduated from Odense Technical School in 1923 and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1925-26. He briefly found employment in Esbjerg before he moved to Aarhus to work for the city architect in 1926.27. He had occasional work for the architect Axel Høeg-Hansen in 1923-34, who had a practice in Aarhus, and in 1935 he became regularly employed there. In 1940 he took over the company when Høeg-Hansen left Aarhus.

Salling-Mortensen created some of the landmark structures in Aarhus such as Handelsbankens Hus, Børglum Kollegiet and the former Main City Library in Mølleparken. He was a member of the board of the Architects' Association of Denmark's department in Jutland from 1941-48. Salling-Mortensen was married to Christence Elisabeth Kjær on 26 December 1934 in Esbjerg and died on 15 October 1969 in Aarhus. He is interred at Vestre Cemetery.

In 1969 Salling-Mortensen's former architects practice was bought by Falch og Larsen A/S and is today aarhus arkitekterne a/s.