Design Across Scales
Patricia Urquiola is a Spanish architect and designer based in Milan. She studied architecture and design in Madrid and at the Politecnico di Milano, where she completed her studies under Achille Castiglioni. In 2001 she founded Studio Urquiola with Alberto Zontone.
The studio works across product design, architecture, interiors, art direction and strategic consulting. Urquiola approaches rooms and objects as related parts of lived experience rather than separate disciplines.
Material Research and Human Experience
Her work often begins with an empathic reading of the user. Colour, tactility, craft and industrial technology are combined to make spaces and products that invite interaction while retaining practical clarity.
Projects such as Il Sereno on Lake Como, Room Mate Giulia in Milan, The Rome EDITION and the renovated public areas of Four Seasons Hotel Milano show how this approach adapts to hospitality, existing architecture and local material histories.
Furniture, Industry and Cultural Continuity
Urquiola’s furniture and product work extends the same research into seating, surfaces, textiles, lighting and domestic objects. Her collaborations connect craft knowledge with contemporary manufacturing, often testing recycled or reworked materials and new production processes.
Since 2015 she has served as Creative Director of Cassina. Across studio projects and industry collaborations, her practice is defined by curiosity, unexpected connections and a sustained attention to how people encounter design in everyday life.
