Harry Mandeno

Henry Thomas Mandeno (20 June 1879 – 20 August 1973) was a New Zealand modernist architect.

Mandeno first worked for builder Robert Crawford, while studying architectural draughtsmanship in night classes.

Mandeno worked as an assistant at the architectural firm Mason & Wales,[2] before setting up his own practice, with offices in the New Zealand Express Company building, in 1911.

[2] Mandeno's first major commission was the King Edward Technical College (which now has Category I heritage listing), for which he needed to take on an assistant, Roy Fraser.

[5][6][7] Mandeno became a member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects at its incorporation in 1913, and was elected president in 1931.