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The delegation also met with Hungary?s chief architect Ervin Nagy and chairman of the Hungarian Architects Association Ernő Kálmán.
Kálmán signed a cooperation agreement with the head of the Chinese Architects Association at the meeting.
In addition to the expo, the talks focussed on the establishment of a cultural centre in the Hudec Villa in Shanghai and a Hungarian Salon in the city?s Park Hotel, another landmark designed by the Hungarian architect László Hudec.
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, designing more than a hundred buildings in the city.
