Comparing design education on tectonics with traditional design education on drawing from three design stages:investigating, designing and peo-duction making, this paper aimsw to contrast their dif-ferent cognitive and expressive methods on treating architectural design and point out the shortage of the Iatter, as well as explain the importance of the former for architecture majors to understand the architec-tural space and realize the performance of materials. In the end, it put forwards that the combination of the two is the key to improve the current teaching quality of architecture.