Montalba Architects
Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
About Montalba Architects
Montalba Architects is a multi-disciplinary firm supported by a team of architects, designers, and professionals working across two offices. The firm produces select architecture and urban design-related projects with professional experience that includes the fine arts, media, and business management. Montalba emphasizes environments that are both socially responsive and aesthetically progressive. Over the last 15 years, the firm has continued to refine its craft through the forces of volumetric landscapes, material integrity, natural light, and pure spatial volumes to create solutions to the pragmatic requirements of the client, constructability, and context. The firm fosters communication between involved parties and leads the architectural and construction teams on behalf of the client as proactive experts. As the founding principal of Montalba Architects, David Montalba is the driving force of leadership and design within the firm. In addition to maintaining membership with the Singapore Institute of Architects, he has also been recognized with numerous awards. Those awards include the National Young Architect Award from the AIA in 2008, the 2019 AIA Institute Honor Award, and over 100 other design awards. David works closely with the principals and staff in taking on a more personal approach to each project, including The Row’s first flagship store. Slipping through the store’s double-height entry courtyard, customers are pulled through an over-scaled glass door and into the foyer, which looks out onto the pool lounge. The gallery-like interior is retail-focused with a residential-infused spirit. Natural light floods into the galleries flanking both sides of the pool through operable floor-to-ceiling structural glass doors and a new 25-foot-long skylight.Work with Montalba Architects
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