As a part of the teaching system of architecture and civil engineering, building structure has always focused on teaching structural concepts and principles to students with an engineering mindset. While the history of the development of building structure technology is combined with historiography to show students the whole process of its dynamic development. It not only covers the explanation of the basic principles of different types of structures, but also involves in-depth interpretation of multiple perspectives such as material selection, invention, historical figures, system construction and regional culture. The course of development history of building technology, which has been offered by the Institute of Building Technology and Science, School of Architecture, Southeast University, for master students in recent years, is taken as an opportunity. Based on the results of the teaching exploration of the course of development history of building structure technology, combined with the relevant literatures and knowledge, the lineage of the development history of building structure technology is integrated. It provides a new perspective for teaching structural courses to students in higher architecture schools, completes the series of teaching system of the development history of building technology and injects the vitality of the new era.