Youssef Aftimus (25 November 1866–10 September 1952); (يوسف أفتيموس) was a Lebanese civil engineer and architect who specialized in Arabo-Mauresque architecture. Aftimus was the leading Lebanese architect and urban planner during the first half of the twentieth century, he is the author of many of Beirut's well known landmarks such as the Beirut Municipality Building, the Grand Serail's Hamidiyyeh clock tower, the Hamidiyyeh Fountain and the Barakat Building. More than an engineer and an architect, Aftimus was also academic, a journalist, a visionary urban planner an enthusiastic patriot, politician and philanthropist.
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