Montalba Architects engages in a collective pursuit of uncovering ideas and processes embedded in project context to create new forms of expression through space and scale.
The Studio

Founded in 2004 by David Montalba, our multi-disciplinary firm is supported by a team of architects, designers, and professionals across three offices. We produce select architecture and urban design-related projects ranging in scope and context, from rural landscapes in Wyoming and Switzerland to dense urban scapes of New York and Los Angeles.

Our projects emphasize experiences by creating environments that are both socially responsive and aesthetically progressive. Over the last 15 years, we have continued to refine our craft through the forces of volumetric landscapes, material integrity, natural light and pure spatial volumes to create solutions to pragmatic requirements of the client, constructability and context.

Diversity in Scale & Experience

The variety of experience and expertise within the office has lent itself to the organic development of project-type driven teams of specialists within their respective categories of work.

Although we like to approach each project from the context with which it is set, we pride ourselves on the knowledge base

we have developed over the years. Additionally, we rely on the collaborative aspect of creating architecture to further our work.

We emphasize communication between involved parties as critical to the success of a project and strive to lead the architectural and construction teams on behalf of the client as proactive, well-prepared, relentless and balanced professionals.
New Construction
Renovations
Multi-Family
Mixed-Use


Flagship Store
Boutique Retail
Showroom
Brand Roll-Out


Creative Office
Corporate Office
Institutional
Gym


Hotel / Boutique Hotel
Food & Beverage
Health Club
Spa


Master Planning
Mixed-Use Development
Education
Performing Arts
Installations
Professional Services

In addition to overseeing the design process from concept to construction, we provide full graphics, branding and merchandising services for many of our Clients. This includes in-house, custom designs and fabrication or working closely with a manufacturer to create specific pieces. These additional services are all but necessary. We develop everything from distributed collateral to interior layouts, merchandising, spacing and POS plans, finished photography, signage and logos.
Architecture & Master Planning
Interior Design
Survey Research
Merchandising & POS Plans
Kitchen Consulting
Procurement

Site Analysis
Feasibility Studies
Acquisition & Selection
Landscape Design

Material Research
Brand Development
Signage & Environmental Graphics
Furniture & Fixture Design
Brand & Tenant Guidelines


Exhibition Design
Virtual Design
3D Visualization
Pop-Ups

LEED / Sustainability Consulting
WELL Certification
Material Research
 

We use tools of artistry - concept, craft and expression - to articulate ideas through materiality. Our work is an ongoing, evolving process of collaboration.
Process
Our approach to design goes beyond architecture to encompass all elements of making, bringing a more complete cohesion to the project. We work with artists, builders and clients collectively to find new design expressions to solve problems. Rather than apply aesthetics, we conceive them as solutions to pragmatic requirements, constructability and context. We approach design in terms of the big ideas that shape the project and begin to magnify the scope from there. From the start, we work to really understand clients and their values, and find the right concept that supports and expresses both.

Our approach to design goes beyond architecture to encompass all elements of making, bringing a more complete cohesion to the project. We work with artists, builders and clients collectively to find new design expressions to solve problems. Rather than apply aesthetics, we conceive them as solutions to pragmatic requirements, constructability and context. We approach design in terms of the big ideas that shape the project and begin to magnify the scope from there. From the start, we work to really understand clients and their values, and find the right concept that supports and expresses both.


Los Angeles Office
2525 Michigan Ave., Bldg. T4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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New York Office
416 West 13th Street, Suite 200
New York, NY 10014
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Lausanne Office
Rue Centrale 6 (fourth floor)
Lausanne, CH-1003 Switzerland
Los Angeles Office
2525 Michigan Ave., Bldg. T4
Santa Monica, CA 90404
info@montalbaarchitects.com
+1 (310) 828 1100
New York Office
416 West 13th Street, Suite 200
New York, NY 10014
ny@montalbaarchitects.com
+1 (310) 828 1100
Lausanne Office
Rue Centrale 6 (fourth floor)
Lausanne, CH-1003 Switzerland
lausanne@montalbaarchitects.com
+41 (0) 21 311 4296
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