david montalba, aia - Montalba Architects

david montalba, aia - Montalba Architects

DAVID MONTALBA, AIA
david@montalbaarchitects.com
FOUNDING PRINCIPAL, MONTALBA ARCHITECTS, INC.
DAVID MONTALBA, AIA
Born in Florence, Italy and raised in both Switzerland and California, David earned his Bachelor
of Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and completed his Master
of Architecture at UCLA. His diverse background as an architect includes over 23 years of
professional practice with architectural firms in the United States and Europe. Believing that
architecture can improve quality of life, his is a humanistic approach, which leads to solutions
that are contextual, yet conceptual and visionary in their intent, affect, and appeal. This work has
been recognized in various publications and with numerous awards, including the AIA’s National
Young Architect Award in 2008, a 2011 AIA Institute Honor Award, and over 25 other design
awards in the past 15 years.
As Founding Principal of Montalba Architects, Inc., David Montalba leads a diverse staff of over
30 creative professionals, working in close collaboration as design principal on each project. He
takes immense pride in mentoring the office’s intern architects, from whose optimism and energy
he draws constant inspiration. His commitment to remain close to both the design process and
his staff, in spite of the pressures that accompany growth, reflects David’s passion for the human
foundations of architecture.
Academic activities and community involvement are integral to David’s practice, as reflected in
his participation in several architecture programs, including as an adjunct professor at UCLA’s
Graduate School of Architecture, where he teaches. He has served as a Board Member and
Treasurer of the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects and an advisor to
the AIA’s Academic Outreach and 2x8 Exhibition Committees. David has also served as a Board
Member of the A+D Museum in Los Angeles. He is a registered member of NCARB and a licensed
architect in the states of California, Florida, Wyoming, Nevada, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and
New York, and in British Columbia, Canada.
CITIZENSHIP
JURY EXPERIENCE
United States of America (USA)
Switzerland (CH)
2014
2012
2010
2008
2007
2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-present
2000-2004
1999-2000
1997-1998
1996-1997
1996
1991-1995
Montalba Architects, Inc. / Founding Principal
Design Bureau / Partner
Pugh + Scarpa
Daly Genik Architects
Rios Associates (now Rios Clementi Hale Studios)
Frank Gehry Partners
Fehlman Labarre Architecture + Planning
REGISTRATION & CREDENTIALS
Licensed Architect / CA, FL, WY, NV, HI, IL, NJ, NY, BC
NCARB / Registered Architect Member since 2002
AIA / Member since 2001, prior as an Associate 1996-2001
Swiss Society of Engineers & Architects (SIA) / Member since 2003
USGBC / LEED Accreditation 2009
1999
1996
1991-1995
BOARDS & AFFILIATIONS
2009-2011
2007-2009
2007-2009
2005-2007
2008-2009
2005-2007
2003-2008
2006-2007
2004-2007
Master of Architecture, UCLA
Bachelor of Architecture, SCI-Arc
Newschool of Architecture - San Diego
2008
2008
Adjunct Professor
University of California - Los Angeles Graduate School of Arch. (UCLA A.UD)
2008 - present
2008
2007
2007
2007
Guest Juror
University of California - Los Angeles Graduate School of Arch. (UCLA A.UD)
California College of the Arts
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
University of Michigan - Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning
California State Polytechnic University of Pomona
2007
2006
2004, 2007
ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT
AIA Los Angeles / Co-Chair Design Conference
AIA Los Angeles / Excom Board Member & Treasurer
AIA California Council / Board Member
AIA Los Angeles / Board Member
AIA Los Angeles / Co-Chair Mobius Committee
AIA Los Angeles / Co-Chair Academic Outreach Committee
AIA Academic Outreach Committee
AIA Los Angeles Academic Summit / Moderator
A+D Museum Los Angeles / Board Member
PANELS & PRESENTATIONS
2013
EDUCATION
AIA Institute Honor Awards in Interior Architecture, Jury Chair
AIA Colorado Design Awards, Juror
AIA Midwest Design Awards, Juror
AIA Los Angeles Restaurant Design Awards, Juror
AIA Los Angeles, 2x8: Vert Student Design Awards, Jury Chair
AIA Los Angeles, 2x8: Swell Student Design Awards, Jury Chair
WestEdge Design Fair, Panelist
“Renovating a Modern Masterpiece: Ridgeline Residence Case Study”
AIA National Convention - Young Architect’s Award Presentation
“Making a Difference in Our Firms, Our Communities, & Our Profession”
AIA Florida Emerging Professionals Conference, Keynote Speaker
“Merging Ideas + Practice”
A+D Museum Young Architect’s Forum, Panelist
AIA Los Angeles Academic Summit, Moderator
John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Symposium Speaker
Architectural Digest Architecture Days, Keynote Speaker
“Defining Architecture: Integrating Volume & Natural Light into Landscape
& People Spaces”
A+D Museum Young Architect’s Forum, Panelist
AIA Los Angeles Academic Summit, Moderator
YAF New Beginnings / Panel Participant
BIO CV 04.14
DAVID MONTALBA, AIA
david@montalbaarchitects.com
FOUNDING PRINCIPAL, MONTALBA ARCHITECTS, INC.
SELECTED PRESS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
The Los Angeles Times, “Opening up to L.A. Light”
The Architect’s Newspaper, “Tooth Patrol”
Hospitality Design, “Nobu Takes Malibu”
The Architect’s Newspaper, “Jet Setting”
Ocean Home Magazine, “The Ins & Outs of It”
VMSD, “LAX Glamour Makeover”
The Wall Street Journal, “High Water Marks”
WWD, “Marant Finds a Home on Melrose”
Design for the New Decade, “Washington Square Park Dental,” Design Media Pub. Ltd.
Building Design+Construction, “Forty Under 40”
ENR California, “Top 20 Under 40”
Inc., “World’s Coolest Offices - Best Small Office”
Very Small Cafes & Restaurants, “Kara’s Cupcakes,” Laurence King
Remodeling, “Center of Attention”
GreenSource Magazine, “Open Up and Say Ah”
ARCHITECT Magazine, “Honor Awards,” Washington Square Park Dental
arcCA, “What I Learned…”
GUSTO: A Journey through Culinary Design, “Kara’s Cupcakes,” Gingko Press
Green Building and Design, “Architect to Watch”
Powershop 2: New Retail Design, “Kara’s Cupcakes” & “Arcade,” Frame / Gestalten
FORM, “Soaring Talent - 5 To Watch”
1000x Architecture of the Americas, “Montalba Architects, Inc.,” Deutsche Bibliothek
The New York Times, “Boutique Beat: Five Top New Stores”
California Home + Design, “Architect of Indulgence”
Martha Stewart Living, “California Cool”
The Robb Report Collection, “Take Two”
ELLE DECOR, “Rhapsody in Gray”
WWD, “Neil Lane Opens New Store”
Venice CA: Art + Architecture in a Maverick Community, Abrams
SPACE, “Detailed Constructions”
Harper’s Bazaar, “A Fashionable Life”
Architectural Record, “ArchRecord2”
LA Architect, “Ten to Watch”
Competitions Magazine, “Octavia Housing Winners”
San Francisco Chronicle, “Octavia Blvd Rolls Along”
Interior Design, “Imagination Takes Flight”
1000 Architects, “Montalba Architects, Inc.,” Images Publishing, AU
The Venice Paper, “Something Old, Something Modern”
Interior Design, “Ready for Primetime”
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2005
2004
2002
ARN Award for Best Concession Design - Large Airport Division, LAX TBIT
LABJ Commercial Real Estate Silver Award - Hospitality, Nikita
AIA|LA Presidential Honor Award - Building Team, LAX TBIT
AIA|LA Restaurant Design Award, Nobu Malibu
Building Design+Construction 40 Under 40 Award
Remodeling Design Award - Merit Award, Westridge Residence
ENR California Top 20 Under 40
AIA Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture, WS Park Dental
Green Good Design Award, WS Park Dental
Builder’s Choice Design & Planning Award - Grand Award, Ridgeline House
Remodeling Design Award - Grand Award, Ridgeline House
AIA California Council Merit Award for Interior Architecture, WS Park Dental
AIA San Francisco Merit Award, Excellence in Interior Architecture, WS Park Dental
Custom Home Design Award - Custom Kitchen & Bath, Ridgeline House
Residential Architect Merit Award - Custom Kitchen, Ridgeline House
Southern California Development Forum Design Award, Ridgeline House
AIA Pasadena & Foothill Design Honor Award - Renovation, Ridgeline House
Southern California Development Forum Design Award, WS Park Dental
AIA|LA Restaurant Design Award, Kara’s Cupcakes Marina
AIA Young Architects Award
AIA California Council John S. Bolles, FAIA, Fellowship
AIA San Francisco, Excellence in Interior Architecture - Citation Award, IDC
AIA San Francisco, Excellence in Interior Architecture - Citation Award, Kara’s GS
Watermark Awards, Rising Glen
AIA|LA Restaurant Design Award, IDC
AIA|LA - NEXT LA Citation Award, Octavia Parcspace Lofts
Octavia International Housing Competition - Citation Award
STARR Award, Retail Architecture, Monique Lhuillier- Edina
AIA/TC Design of Excellence Award, Waldin Residence
AIA/TC Design of Excellence Award, Gomez Road Residence
AIA|LA Interior Architecture Award, Monique Lhuillier - Beverly Hills
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS OF WORK
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
40/40 SCI-Arc Anniversary Exhibition,“Fractal Projection,” Los Angeles, CA
Small Firms Great Projects Exhibition, AIA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibition, AIA National HQ, Washington, DC
AIA Los Angeles Design Awards Exhibition, traveling exhibition
Dwell on Design + AIA Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Architecture and Design, San Francisco, CA
AIA National Convention Design Expo, New Orleans, LA
Small Firms Great Projects Exhibition, AIA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
AIA Los Angeles Design Awards Exhibition, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA
UCLA A.UD Select Alumni Exhibition, “Past, Present, Future,” Los Angeles, CA
Small Firms Great Projects Exhibition, AIA San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
UCLA A.UD Select Alumni Exhibition, “Uncontested,” Los Angeles, CA
New Blood : Next Gen Exhibition, A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA
BIO CV 04.14
DAVID MONTALBA, AIA
david@montalbaarchitects.com
FOUNDING PRINCIPAL, MONTALBA ARCHITECTS, INC.
NOBU RESTAURANT
ECOLE DU CENSUY
WASHINGTON SQ. PARK DENTAL
WESTRIDGE RESIDENCE
LAX INT’L TERMINAL INTERIORS
2013
2012
2011
2010
Equinox The Row Melrose Park Water Corporate HQ Duty Free Shops (DFS) LAX Terminal 2 San Lorenzo Residence Casa Malibu Inn Bottega Veneta, South Coast Plaza Carbon Beach Shopping Center Abbot Kinney Lofts Oxnard Beach House LAX Terminal 6 Newark United Terminal C Ridgeline Residence II Cafe Rockenwagner Walt Disney Imagineering R+D Bugbee Residence Nobu Lanai Ports 1961 Nobu Indian Wells St. Aidan’s Expansion Westfield Century City Dining Terrace The Rubicon Project HQ Westfield Palm Desert Duty Free Shops (DFS) LAX TBIT Ayara Thai Chrome River Offices Barbara Bui Mammoth MOPHIE Cutting Room Stylehaus Isabel Marant Melrose Westfield LAX TBIT Retail & Concessions Disney Rotunda Executive Dining Room Anderson Residence Solair Wilshire Ecole du Censuy Walt Disney Imagineering Commissary JVH Pacific Canyon Lodge Westridge Residence LA Metro Canopy Homewood Residence Milo & Olive LAX INT’L TERMINAL CONCESSIONS
SELECTED PROJECTS (CONT.)
SELECTED PROJECTS
2014
RIDGELINE RESIDENCE
Huntington Beach, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Downey, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica, CA
Malibu, CA
Costa Mesa, CA
Malibu, CA
Venice, CA
Oxnard, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Newark, NJ
Pasadena, CA
Brentwood, CA
Glendale, CA
Malibu, CA
Lanai, HI
Chicago, IL & Toronto, Canada
Indian Wells, CA
Malibu, CA
Century City, CA
Playa Vista, CA
Palm Desert, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Costa Mesa, CA
Mammoth Lakes, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Glendale, CA
Jackson, WY
Los Angeles, CA
Renens, Switzerland
Burbank, CA
Venice, CA
Mammoth Lakes, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Monica, CA
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
Washington Square Park Dental San Francisco, CA
Bethusy Sports Center Complex Competition Lausanne, Switzerland
Sweet Rose Creamery Los Angeles, CA
Head Start Resource Library Santa Fe Springs, CA
Nikita Malibu, CA
Ridgeline Residence Pasadena, CA
Nobu Malibu Malibu, CA
Huckleberry Cafe Santa Monica, CA
Neil Lane Jewelry Los Angeles, CA
David Yurman Madison Concepts New York, NY
Arcade Boutique Los Angeles, CA
Carouge Geneva, Switzerland
Latigo Canyon Residence Malibu, CA
Sony Music Corporate HQ Beverly Hills, CA
Coastline Residence Malibu, CA
Monique Lhuillier Edina, MN
Bottega Veneta Costa Mesa, CA
Brooktree Residence Pacific Palisades, CA
Tuna Canyon Residence Los Angeles, CA
Rising Glen House Los Angeles, CA
Ports 1961 Los Angeles, CA
Kara’s Cupcakes - Ghirardelli San Francisco, CA
Briarbluff Residence Malibu, CA
Monique Lhuillier Melrose Place Los Angeles, CA
Freeman Polo Residence Palm Springs, CA
Richwood Residence Brentwood, CA
MUSE Redevelopment Culver City, CA
Kara’s Cupcakes - Marina San Francisco, CA
Century Hill Loft Century City, CA
IMG World Executive Offices Century City, CA
Swiss Pavillion Zaragoza, Spain
IDC San Francisco, CA
Octavia Parcspace Lofts San Francisco, CA
Monique Lhuillier Beverly Hills, CA
Cold Open Studio Venice, CA
Venice Properties Venice, CA
Troxell Addition Pacific Palisades, CA
Oceanfront Walk Santa Monica, CA
Gonen Residence Los Angeles, CA
Teashi San Francisco, CA
BIO CV 04.14