David Montalba, FAIA, SIA, LEED AP (born 1972 in Florence, Italy) is a Swiss-American architect based in Santa Monica, California.
[1] Montalba was born in Florence, Italy and raised in both Lausanne, Switzerland and Carmel and San Diego, California.
[1] Upon graduating from UCLA, he started his career with Fehlman Labarre Architects and has worked with design driven practices in Los Angeles including Frank Gehry,[4] Rios Associates, and Pugh Scarpa,[2] before establishing Santa Monica-based Montalba Architects, Inc. in 2004.
[6] 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.
[12] He was named one of the Top 20 Under 40 winners by ENR California in 2012[13] and listed as one of the 40 Under 40 architects by Building Design + Construction in 2012.