This paper selects the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) funded by the Youth Science Foundation of NSFC regarding Architectural History and Theory as the research object, and collects and sorts the successfully declared fund projects in this field throughout the last decade (2010-2019). Several factors, including the number of funded projects and the distribution of units, were analyzed and compared. This paper focuses on the topic content of the project and keywords, quantify statistics and draws charts from the aspects of time and space distribution of research objects, element characteristics, research types and research methods. On this basis, it analyzes and reveals the static and dynamic topic selection features and changing trends of approved projects. This paper is aimed to give citations and references to assist young scholars in selecting a project topic.