Ahmed Kemaleddin, widely known as Mimar Kemaleddin was a renowned Turkish architect during the late Ottoman and early Republican eras. He was among the pioneers of the first national architectural movement, which was a type of Ottoman Revivalism, His lifetime saw intense and important changes for Turkish history and culture.

The First national architectural movement, also referred to in Turkey as the National architectural Renaissance, or Turkish Neoclassical architecture, was a period of Turkish architecture that was most prevalent between 1908 and 1930 but continued until the end of the 1930s. Inspired by Ottomanism, the movement sought to capture classical elements of Ottoman and Seljuk architecture and use them in the construction of modern buildings. Despite the style focusing on Ottoman aspects, it was most prevalent during the first decade of the Republic of Turkey.