Montalba Architects is an international architecture practice unifying California Modernism and Swiss presicpm. Approaching each project as a unique dialogue between light and landscape, the practice creates emotive and nuanced spaces.Founded by Swiss-American architect David Montalba (FAIA, SIA) in 2004, the practice has realized award-winning designs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and the Caribbean across luxury residential, retail, hospitality, commercial and cultural space. Montalba Architects maintains offices in Los Angeles, California, and Lausanne, Switzerland.

Montalba Architects

Montalba Architects is an international architecture practice unifying California Modernism and Swiss presicpm. Approaching each project as a...

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Manhattan Beach House and Canyon Terrace House use internal moments of landscape to find equal harmony within their surroundings

Montalba Architects Completes Two Southern Californian Homes

Los Angeles, September 6, 2022 – Montalba Architects recently completed two new residential homes in Southern California with each elegantly showcasing Montalba’s mastery of natural light and integrated landscape. Founded in 2004 by Swiss-American architect David Montalba, the firm is known for a duality in their approach to design that integrates Californian openness and Swiss rigor. Both Canyon Terrace House and Manhattan Beach House demonstrate this refined style while seamlessly blending with their respective natural landscapes.

Montalba was born in Florence, Italy and raised in both Lausanne, Switzerland and Carmel and San Diego, California. He attended grade school at Carmel Missions and Junipero Serra High School before going on to attend Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where he earned his Bachelor of Architecture in 1996. He completed his Master of Architecture at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000. Upon graduating from UCLA, he started his career with Fehlman Labarre Architects and has worked with design driven practices in Los Angeles including Frank Gehry, Rios Associates, and Pugh Scarpa, before establishing Santa Monica-based Montalba Architects, Inc. in 2004. He was also an adjunct professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Architecture.

About David Montalba

Montalba was born in Florence, Italy and raised in both Lausanne, Switzerland and Carmel and San Diego, California. He attended grade school at...

The book examines the Los Angeles and Lausanne-based firm’s extensive body of work to date for the first time, through their integrated blend of California openness and Swiss rigor.

Artifice Press Releases Montalba Architects’ First 'Conceptual Book' “Place and Space”

[Los Angeles and London, July 12, 2022] Artifice Press announces the forthcoming release of Place and Space, a conceptual book showcasing international firm Montalba Architects’ scale and breadth of work since its foundation almost two decades ago. Place and Space explores the duality of Montalba’s approach to design, which combines the radical experimentation of 1970s and 1980s California - from the historic volte-face of post-modernism to the controlled architectural chaos of Deconstructivism - with the calm precision of Swiss practice.

Montalba Architects Completes Two Southern Californian Homes

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Artifice Press Releases Montalba Architects’ First 'Conceptual Book' “Place and Space”

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