Based on the characteristics of higher vocational education including less training time, technical ability training, and students’ uneven quality, through integrating the teaching contents and improving the teaching methods, the paper set up the course of introduction to architecture design in the second semester in order to achieve better teaching effect and enhance the students’ employment competitiveness. Aimed to provide the valuable experiences for the architecture teaching of polytechnic colleges, discussed the course construction from background, nature, objective, concept, contents and methods.