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Paulick exhibition honors the city’s master planner
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SHANGHAI Urban Planning Exhibition Hall has launched an exhibition on Richard Paulick (1903-1979), the German architect, who has left a huge footprint on Shanghai.
Paulick served as a leading architect to make the Greater Shanghai Plan — the city’s earliest urban blueprint that was produced in the late 1940s. Paulick flew to Shanghai in 1933 to flee the Nazis.
The Shanghai plan was initiated by the Kuomintang government to develop the city into a global commercial center, using Western urban planning trends.
“Few historians have studied Paulick, but he contributed a lot to Shanghai’s modern development,” said Hou Li, a professor with Tongji University who organized the exhibition. She said Paulick should not be forgotten and deserved to enjoy the same fame as Hungarian architect Laszlo Hudec, who designed many of Shanghai’s landmarks.
After arriving in Shanghai, Paulick was taken under the wing of Sir Victor Sassoon, who built the Cathay Hotel (now the Peace Hotel) in 1929.
Paulick became the core architect with the committee for the Greater Shanghai Plan in the 1940s and finished the final third edition of the plan in October 1949 before leaving the city for East Germany.
In the plan, Paulick designed the Hongqiao area into a “Hungjao new town.” He incorporated the design standards of a European garden city and set a population density of 10,000 residents per square kilometer — the population standard remains a key reference for China’s urban planning.
He designed Shanghai Zhabei Railway Station, and although that wasn’t built, many of its designs were later implemented in the modern renovation of Shanghai Railway Station in the 1980s.
He predicted the city’s population would surge to 15 million by 2000 and suggested developing satellite towns in outskirt districts, Hou added.
Though the blueprint wasn’t implemented due to wars, the Greater Shanghai Plan has become an important reference for the city’s urban planning.
The bilingual exhibition with more than 100 photos and designing charts illustrated the life of Paulick as well as some core parts of the Greater Shanghai Plan. The exhibition is being held on the fifth floor of the exhibition hall through July 2. The hall opens daily except Mondays and the admission is 30 yuan (US$4.40).
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