László Hudec

László Ede Hudec or Ladislav Hudec (Hungarian: Hugyecz László Ede) (Besztercebánya, Austria-Hungary (now Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) January 8, 1893 – Berkeley, October 26, 1958), Chinese name Wu Dake (Chinese: 鄔達克), was a Hungarian–Slovak born architect, active in Shanghai from 1918 to the 1940s. He was responsible for some of the city's most notable and inventive architectural landmarks, particularly the Park Hotel, at 22 floors, the tallest in East Asia, and inspired by New York Art Deco skyscrapers. He also designed the German Expressionist inspired Baptist Publications and Christian Literature Society Building, the Art Deco Grand Theatre, and the Streamlined D. V. Woo House ("Green House"), probably the grandest and most up to date house of the 1930s.