The territorial spatial planning system consists of a detailed plan base that is problem-oriented at the micro level and a master plan base that is goal-oriented at the medium and macro levels. Additionally, "city improvement and ecological restoration" has evolved into a significant strategy for raising city quality. The architectural design curriculum for the junior undergraduate students of urban and rural planning also needs to be adjusted accordingly in order to adapt to the changes in national policies and effectively meet the needs of the general public for high-quality space. Its curriculum objectives, means, and contents need to achieve three changes: from the goal-oriented design of determining architectural design goals and then design countermeasures to the problem-oriented design of discovering problems and then proposing measures to solve them; from the training of simple spatial and functional design skills to the training of design methods of learning to master the whole process of "researching the current situation–discovering problems–proposing solutions–implementing measures–expressing design"; from focusing on the inside-out design focusing on building function and shape to outside-in design focusing on the constraints of built environment on building design. Nanjing Tech University has created a "1" status quo investigation and analysis-based curriculum after years of experimentation, followed by "2" design topics, combining its unique characteristics and emphasizing problem-oriented, space-based, and environment-constrained. Students can improve their understanding of architecture and the environment, their capacity to solve particular problems, their comprehension of relevant design logic, and their ability to connect with the urban and rural planning and design courses in their senior year by significantly increasing their research into current situation analysis, enhancing the environmental constraints, and emphasizing problem-oriented architectural and environmental design.