George Lykos

George Lykos was born in Boston on March 9, 1911. He secured his Bachelors of Architecture in 1935 and his Masters in 1936 both from MIT. Following graduation he served a fellowship travelling Europe (1936). He and Sidney Ingram Goldhammer organized the firm Lykos & Goldhammer Architecture & Engineering in 1942 and joined the San Diego Chapter of the AIA in 1947. As the firm grew they left their Spreckels Building offices moving to 566 Mission Valley Center West.

Partial List of San Diego Projects

Campus Drive-In (1948-49)
6147 El Cajon Boulevard
Demolished

County Law Library (1958)
1105 Front Street

Cubic (1961)
Balboa & Ponderosa

Duplex for Charles Clark II (1949)
3301 Hawk Street

Electro Instruments Inc. (1959)

First Unitarian Universalist Church (1959)
4190 Front Street

Grant K-8 School (1956)
1425 Washington Place

Juvenile Hall
Kearney Mesa

Lykos, George Residence (1949)
2145 Paseo Dorado

Ocean Beach Pier

Ryan Aeronautics (1963)
San Diego Industrial Park

San Diego County Courthouse (1956-61)
220 West Broadway
Associated architects with this project: Frank L. Hope Jr.; Paderewski, Mitchell & Dean, Samuel H. Hammill, Richard G. Wheeler, and structural engineer E.L. Freeland

San Diego County Detention Center (1956-61)
220 West C Street
Associated architects with this project: Frank L. Hope Jr.; Paderewski, Mitchell & Dean, Samuel H. Hammill, Richard G. Wheeler, and structural engineer E.L. Freeland

Santa Sophia Church (1959)
Casa De Oro

Schwartz, Edward & Gertrude Residence (1952)
3624 Warner Street

Standley Middle School
6298 Radcliffe Drive

St. George Serbian Orthodox Church
3025 Denter Street

Waggenheim Middle School
Mira Mesa