The exhibition of works by László Hudec, who designed more than a hundred buildings in Shanghai, among them the Park Hotel, the Grand Theatre and - the venue for the exhibition - the former American Club, is organised with the participation of the Hungarian Consulate General in Shanghai, the Shanghai Urban Planning Administration Bureau and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University. It shows original plans, models and photographs of Hudec's buildings in the city as well as letters and other documents from the Hungarian National Archives.
The exhibition runs until June 29.
The consulate is working to turn the former American Club, which was built in 1925 and has been vacant since 2005, into a cultural centre, said cultural attaché Judit Hajba.
Hudec 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.
Source: Múlt-kor / Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
