天津大学建筑学院在建筑设计基础课程中，通过借鉴认知学理论和研究性学习理论，设立以空间为核心的空间认知与设计训练系列教学单元，进行相关教学实践。教学单元系列由人体尺度认知、城市认知与分析、经典建筑作品学习与分析、立方体空间设计、空间组合和空间建造六个单元组成，形成符合学生认知特点的序列，同时在教学中贯穿以研究性学习为主体的学习方法，取得了很好的教学效果。

This paper introduces the teaching exploration of teaching methods of architecture specialty in Tianjin University, which includes using space as the core content of preliminary architectural education curriculum, which drawing on cognitive theories, and establishing the spatial cognition and design training series unit. This unit consists of human scale cognitive, urban cognition and analysis, study and analysis of classical architectural works, cube space design training, integration of spatial organization training and spatial construction. Research-based learning is the main learning methods in teaching process. This teaching practice achieved good teaching results.