Unlike some projects that celebrate urban architecture for its small carbon footprint and dense living quarters, Le Carceri Uncanny presents architecture as a critical speculation on the design of buildings for cities that sometimes fail to accommodate human concerns. Prompted by urgent considerations surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this project is a psychoanalytic exploration of the confines of dim space. These uncanny images of spaces with no clear dimensional qualities resemble the mezzotint moods of eighteenth-century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s iconic “Le Carceri d’Invenzione” (Imaginary Prisons) series of etchings. Ambiguous spatial relations abound. The camera’s cropping in low lighting, while projecting its own kind of mediated containment, liberates architecture from its three-dimensional foundations. What other emotional, psychological, and socio-economic implications emerge from minimizing occupiable space for human subjects? This uncanny exercise in sensory exclusion reframes architecture as a cryptic domain of dark desire. Neither architecture nor revolution can be avoided.