Nancy COULING

Architect and Urban Researcher. Professor at Bergen School of Architecture - BAS. Bergen School of Architecture. Bergen, Norway.

Nancy works as a researching architect and is an associate professor of design and planning at the Bergen School of Architecture, where she runs the master design course “Explorations in Ocean Space,” investigating the North and Norwegian Seas through technical, artistic, ecological, and performative spatial perspectives. Following architectural studies in New Zealand, she was awarded a post-grad fellowship at IUAV, Venice, and worked in international practices in Auckland, Hong Kong, and Melbourne before co-founding her interdisciplinary agency, cet-0/01, in Berlin. In 2015, she gained her PhD at the EPFL, supervised by Harry Gugger. Through her research project OceanUrb: The Unseen Spaces of Extended Urbanisation in the North Sea, she completed a Marie Curie Post-Doc Fellowship at TU Delft (2017–19) with Carola Hein. Inspired by frequently intangible, invisible, but critical large-scale urban phenomena, she collaborated on the FCL Territories of Extended Urbanisation project and joined Architecture of Territory in 2021 for the FCL Global project.