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Hudec designed more than a hundred buildings in Shanghai, among them the Park Hotel and the former American Club. He was born in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, in 1893, when the city was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied architecture in Budapest from 1911 until 1914, then enlisted at the beginning of WWI. Hudec was captured by the Russians in 1916 and sent to a prison camp in Siberia. On his way to the camp he jumped from a train near the Chinese border and made his way to Shanghai, where he put his architectural training to work, first for an American firm, then for his own.
Tarlós described Hudec as an iconic figure of Chinese-Hungarian relations, one who mastered his craft at home but later became famous in the Chinese metropolis.
The opening was attended by Li Yaoxin, the governor of the district of Changning, and by Hungarian Consul General László Kuti.
The Hudec exhibition in Shanghai runs through July 4.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
