As a part of the teaching system of architecture and civil engineering, architectural structure has always focused on teaching structural concepts and principles to students with an engineering mindset. While the history of the development of building structure technology is combined with historiography to show students the whole process of its dynamic development. It covers not only the explanation of the basic principles of different types of structures, but also involves in-depth interpretation of multiple perspectives such as material selection, invention, historical figures, system construction and regional culture. The course “the development history of building technology”, which had been offered by the institute of building technology and science, school of architecture, Southeast University, for master students in recent years, was taken as an opportunity. Based on the results of the teaching exploration of the course “the development history of building structure technology”, combined with relevant literature and knowledge. The lineage of the development history of building structure technology was integrated. On the one hand, it provides a new perspective for teaching structural courses to students in higher architecture schools. On the other hand, it also completes the series of teaching system of the development history of building technology and injects the vitality of the new era.