PROFILE
As founder and principal of Montalba Architects, Inc., David Montalba is acting design principal on each project. Believing that architecture can improve quality of life, his practice favors a humanistic approach, which often leads to solutions that are contextual, yet conceptual and visionary in their intent, affect, and appeal. He has served as treasurer and board member of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as well as a board member of the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. In 2008, Montalba was the recipient of a prestigious AIA Young Architects Award and was selected as the AIACC’s John S. Bolles Fellow. Most recently Montalba Architects was honored by the AIA with an Institute Honor in Interior Architecture (2011) for WS Park Dental; other awards include an AIACC Merit Award for Interior Architecture (2011), a Green Good Design Award (2011), Custom Home Design Awards (2011), an AIA Pasadena Honor Award (2010), and AIA|LA Restaurant Design Awards (2009 & 2007). His work has been featured in Architectural Record, ARCHITECT, Green Building & Design, FORM, and Harper’s Bazaar, amongst many others.
EDUCATION
M.Arch. II (UCLA)
B. A. (SCI-ARC)
STUDIO
Montalba Architects
AWARDS
2011 AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture: WS Park Dental
2011 AIA California Council Merit Award for Interior Architecture: WS Park Dental
2011Green Good Design Award:European Center for Architecture
2011 Builder’s Choice Design & Planning Award: Ridgeline House
2011 AIA San Francisco Merit Award - Excellence in Interior Architecture:
2011 Residential Architect Design Merit Award: WS Park Dental
2011 Remodeling Design Award: Ridgeline House
2011 Custom Home Design Award: Ridgeline House
2010 AIA Pasadena & Foothill Honor Award – Renovation: Ridgeline House
2010 AIA/LA Restaurant Design Award: Kara’s Cupcakes
2008 AIA Young Architects Award
2008 John S. Bolles, FAIA, Fellowship
