A family of separate but related architectural “creatures” punctuate the Siebel Center for Design’s public spaces, activating intimate pockets of programming. The family includes a welcome desk, a gateway arch, a mobile amphitheater backdrop for lectures/performances, and a mobile exhibition display kiosk that wanders away from the pack. The creatures exhibit zoomorphism and embody vital characteristics like personality, posture, facial expressions, charisma, and attitude that collectively initiate companionship with their human visitors and prompt interactive engagement and levity.  Architecture creatures like these construct a lens through which we read the world as composed almost entirely of animated beings with character, in relation to other beings, at a range of scales, and in various contexts. This lively way of seeing the world retrains the perception of our own human personhood to acknowledge how much more we have in common with creature companions than that which the conventional built environment recognizes.