At the dawn of the age of popularization of higher education, practical teaching is faced with new opportunities and challenges. This study revolves around the teaching reform of architecture specialty model making course in our university, discussing the reform ways of practical teaching of architectural education in universities. As one of the traditional skills training of Architecture major education, model experiment can help students more vividly experience the generation of space and the characteristics reflected by the construction and use of materials. On the one hand, it strengthen students" practical ability, on the other hand, it stimulate students" innovative thinking. However, the traditional experimental teaching mode is not updated in time, which makes the model experimental teaching nearly lose its original position in architecture courses, even more difficult to adapt to the new development requirements. This paper puts forward some specific reform schemes, which are helpful for other universities to learn from practical teaching reform.