Workshop is a new teaching mode that many colleges and universities are actively trying and developing. The workshop teaching mode can make the teams of teachers and students concentrate resources and energy to complete the complex teaching practice task in a short term through active and effective organization and management. In this paper, the Architecture in Extreme Environments Workshop that organized via the collaboration among Southeast University, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Lanzhou University of Technology is regarded as an example. This paper makes a detailed description of the various aspects of the workshop, including preparation, academic reports, research visits, test process and results report and defense. In addition, this paper analyzes the advantages of the workshop teaching mode in cultivating students' international perspective, communication and cooperation ability, team consciousness, combination of teaching and practice, and puts forward some suggestions for the similar international exchange activities.