Architecture discipline research is the foundation of architecture teaching system. How to deal with knowledge update under the background of social transformation is a challenge to discipline research. This paper carries out knowledge mapping analysis on related literature in recent 30 years, which is on architecture discipline research from core journals, trying to explore the evolution characteristics and trend of discipline research. First of all, CiteSpace software is used to analyze document quantity, core authors and other data, to objectively describe the basic characteristics of the evolution of discipline research. Then through keyword clustering and keyword co-occurrence, combined with analysis of the consensus of views, the paper is trying to sum up the research trend. The result shows that architecture discipline research has entered a period of transition, and the current research has not formed an obvious cooperation network. The trend of the future discipline research lies in the responding to the problems of urbanization, digitalization and historical protection.