| name =László Hudec

| native_name =Hugyecz László

| birth_name = Hugyecz László Ede

| birth_place = [[Besztercebánya]]

| nationality = [[Hungary|Hungarian]]<br>[[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]]

| ethnicity = [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]]<ref name=Poncellini>{{cite web |url= http://www.gta.arch.ethz.ch/veranstaltungen/hudec|title=Laszlo Hudec in Shanghai (1919-1947) and the Pursuit of Chinese Modernity |last1=Poncellini|first1= Luca|date= 2011|work= |location=[[Zurich]]|publisher=Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur |quote=Architect of Hungarian and Slovak origins, Laszlo Hudec (1893-1958) has been one of the most outstanding protagonists of the process of diffusion of modern architecture in the city of Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s.|accessdate=May 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name=Csejdy/><br>[[Slovaks|Slovak]]<ref name=Csejdy/><ref name=Poncellini/>

| citizenship = [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian]] (1893-1921)<br>[[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] (1921-1941)<br>[[Hungary|Hungarian]] (1941-)

'''László Ede Hudec'''<ref name=Hugyecz>{{cite web |url= http://www.hudec.sh/index.php?id=33|title=Life and work; Roots |last1= |first1= |last2= |first2= |date= 2008|work=Ministry of Culture and Education of Hungary; College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University|publisher=www.hudec.cn|accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> or '''Ladislav Hudec''' ({{lang-hu|Hugyecz László Ede}})<ref name=Hugyecz/> ([[Besztercebánya]], January 8, 1893 – [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], October 26, 1958) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Global Shanghai, 1850-2010: a history in fragments |last=Wasserstrom |first=Jeffrey N. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=Routledge |location= |isbn=0415213282, 9780415213288 |page=102 |pages= |url= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>[http://www.china.org.cn/travel/expo2010shanghai/2009-04/23/content_17661535.htm Wang Zhiyong:''Hudec and Shanghai'', Photography Exhibition], retrieved 4 September 2010</ref> - [[Slovak people|Slovak]]<ref name=Hugyecz2/> architect active in [[Shanghai]] from 1918 to 1945 and responsible for some of that city's most notable structures. Major works include the [[Park Hotel Shanghai|Park Hotel]], the Grand Theater, the Joint Savings and Loan building, the combined Baptist Publications and Christian Literature Society buildings, and the post-modern "Green House". Hudec's style evolved during his active period, from the eclectic neo-classicism popular in the early 20th century to art deco and modern buildings toward the later part of his career. Although some of his buildings have been lost in the intervening decades, many survive.

Hudec was born in 1893 in [[Banská Bystrica|Besztercebánya]], [[Austria-Hungary]].<ref name=Hugyecz2/> His father, György Hugyecz was a wealthy magyarized<ref group="note">Originally Juraj Hudec, he changed his Slovak name "Hudec" to the Hungarian form "Hugyecz" in 1890. ({{cite web |url= http://www.ladislavhudec.eu/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=67|title=The man who changed Shanghai |chapter=Who is L.E.Hudec|last1=Kabos |first1=Ladislav |last2= |first2= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=May 17, 2011}})</ref> [[Slovaks|Slovak]]<ref name=Csejdy/><ref>Peter G. Rowe, Seng Kuan, ''Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China'', MIT Press, 2004, p.58</ref><ref>''Modern Chinese literature and culture'', vol.18-19, Foreign Language Publications, 2006, p.45</ref> architect, born in the nearby village of Felsőmicsinye (now [[Horná Mičiná]]), while his mother, Paula Skultéty was an ethnic [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]]<ref name=Csejdy>{{cite web|url=http://www.epiteszet.hudecproject.com/hu/essays/besztercebanyatol-sanghajig-hugyecz-laszlo-epitesz-1893-1958-eletpalyaja |title=Besztercebányától Sanghajig. Hugyecz László építész (1893-1958) életpályája |first=Júlia |last=Csejdy|date=2009|publisher= Hudec Heritage Project |at= |language=Hungarian |trans_title= From Banská Bystrica to Shanghai. The life of architect László Hugyecz (1893-1958)|chapter=1. Ifjúság, egyetemi évek|accessdate=May 17, 2011 |quote=„Hogy vajon magyar vagy tót vagyok, én nem tudom, nem is keresem, magamat széjjel nem vághatom, mint szétvágták hazámat, mindig az maradok, ami voltam. Nem kérdezte senki tőlem a régi szentistváni Magyarországon, hogy vajon '''tót vagyok-e vagy magyar? Szerettem mindkettőt, hiszen anyám magyar, apám tót származású volt, és én is mind a kettő voltam'''.” Translation: 'whether I am Tót (Slovak) or Magyar (Hungarian), I liked both of them, my mother had Hungarian, my father had Slovak origin, and I was both. ' }}</ref> from [[Kassa]]. He studied architecture at [[Budapest University of Technology and Economics|Budapest University]] from 1911 to 1914.<ref name="Warr A">Warr, Anne: ''Shanghai Architecture'', The Watermark Press, 2007, ISBN 9780949284761</ref> As a patriotic [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian citizen]],<ref name=Hugyecz2>{{cite web |url= http://www.ladislavhudec.eu/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=67|title=The man who changed Shanghai |chapter=Who is L.E.Hudec|last1=Kabos |first1=Ladislav |last2= |first2= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=May 17, 2011}}</ref> Hudec [[Austro-Hungarian Army|volunteered to join the army]] after outbreak of [[World War I]], but was captured by the Russian Army in 1916 and was sent to a prison camp in Siberia.<ref name=Hugyecz2/> While being transferred, he jumped from a train near the Chinese border and made his way to Shanghai, where he joined the American architectural office R.A. Curry.<ref name="Warr A"/>