[3] Michael Lykoudis was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954 after his parents moved to the United States from Greece to pursue PhDs.
He instituted an enhanced international travel program for students to Asia, South and Central America and Europe.
He led groups of students in several large projects, including a new urban design plan for the Central Business District of the University of Notre Dame's home city of South Bend and the master planning of the fire-ravaged town of Mati, Greece.
[5][6] Lykoudis has co-curated several international exhibitions on architecture and urbanism including The Art of Building Cities, Chicago 1995[7] and L'Altra Modernita (The other Modern) in Bologna Italy.
He has written numerous essays on the topic of traditional architecture and urbanism and lectured in the United States and abroad.