Animal Houses is a research-based visualization seminar. The class will study the nature of animal occupation on earth and then focus into close study of a method or system of occupation by a single species. Species selection and methods of representation will be governed by individual interests based on an introductory series of exercises focused on the primary categories of land, sea, and air. Work will be realized in the form of visualizations that collect and re-present discoveries. Given the nature of the research, visualizations will push the boundaries of traditional and contemporary architectural drawings and imagery by incorporating process, time, and change into the presentation of spatial language. The seminar will allow for in-depth individual research, practice in the transformation of ideas into form, and informed understanding of the material nature of occupied space through the study of animal space. Students will have access to both specialists in animal life as well as specialists in representation technologies and processes to strengthen and facilitate representational ambitions. The research will further allow for an expanded understanding of alternate building practice and methodologies.