With the rapid development of economy, the requirements for architectural education have been further improved, especially that the first year teaching is the foundation of the whole teaching system of architecture. How to cultivate high-quality freshmen in architecture and lay a foundation for subsequent architecture education is an important direction for thinking in lower grade teaching. This paper studies some universities’ teaching situation of architecture in lower grades, and puts forward the problems existing in the teaching. Then taking architecture teaching in the first year as the main object, and architecture speciality in Wuhan University as a case, it explores the teaching mode that combines technology and art and is suitable for first-year students.