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The Claude Glass is a collection of more than a thousand images of landscapes, arranged thematically, for the use of students in the History of Landscape Architecture, taught by Professor Susan Herrington at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

The Glass was designed and built by Rogerio de Anda and Tatiana Jaldin, in consultation with Dominic Lopes. Its contruction was funded by the UBC Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.

The Claude Glass is a small, slightly convex, tinted mirror used to give landscapes the appearance of paintings. In 1778, Thomas West prescribed that “the person using it ought always to turn his back to the object that he views. It should be suspended by the upper part of the case, holding it a little to the right or the left (as the position of the parts to be viewed require) and the face screened from the sun.”