Montalba Architects is an award-winning practice based in Los Angeles, CA and Lausanne, Switzerland producing a diverse collection of projects ranging in scale from residential homes to commercial office interiors, retail stores and master planning.

By embracing a humanistic approach that considers a client's needs and site requirements along with the cultural and economic environment, solutions are realized that are contextually conceptual and visionary in their intent, effect and appeal.

Our projects emphasize experiences by creating environments that are both socially responsive and aesthetically progressive. The forces of volumetric landscapes, material integrity and natural light are combined with pure spatial volumes to create solutions to pragmatic requirements of the client, constructability and context.

These Prefab Cabins Offer the Ultimate Eco Escape in the Heart of the Swiss Alps
A new suite of prefab timber cabins welcomes guests at the Whitepod Eco-Luxury Hotel.
Sunlight Plays a Starring Role in an Architect’s Family Home in L.A.
Walls of glass allow the unique light of the Upper Santa Monica Canyon to warm architect David Montalba’s boxy, concrete...
17 Architects and Designers on How the Pandemic Will Change Our Homes Forever
Architects around the world sound off on how the COVID-19 pandemic will change our homes—and what “shelter” means in the new...