It is one of the important missions of higher education to cultivate students professional quality and enhance their comprehensive ability. Taking architectural design basics, a core basic course of architecture specialty, as the research object, this paper reflects and updates the teaching mode and evaluation mode from the perspective of professional quality. It points out three main problems: the traditional curriculum content lags behind the development of the construction industry, the traditional evaluation mode can not meet the current needs, and the traditional learning atmosphere is difficult to achieve all-round development of students. In view of these curriculum-related problems, it sets three teaching reform objectives and analyzes their reform motivation, summarizes the teaching reform elements including quality and ability, clarifies four teaching reform mechanisms of integration,practice,innovation and dynamic, and explores two reform paths oriented to quality cultivation and ability training respectively. In addition, it further puts forward the reform evaluation strategy and desired effect integrating systematicness, fairness and rationality, in hopes of providing reference ideas for the construction and development of professional basic courses in architectural colleges.