Abstract:

An accurate, complete and systematic conceptual system is an important foundation for good development of discipline. For a long time, there have been some problems in the discipline of architecture, such as unclear basic categories, unclear core concepts, vague concept definitions, unclear concept relations, unsystematic concepts, chaotic concept use and so on, which not only affect the further development of the discipline, refined research and reference with other disciplines, but also bring many troubles to the majority of architectural educators and learners. By using clustering thinking, we summarize the most essential, important, stable and common concepts of the ontology category of architecture discipline, and analyze, compare and classify the concepts according to the logic of “architectural ontology elements, architectural influence elements and architectural constituent elements”, so as to form a more systematic concept and terminology system. Through construction of the concept system, we aim to strengthen the accuracy and standardization of the use of concepts in the discipline of architecture, improve the scientificity and preciseness of the theoretical knowledge of the discipline, and form an overall clear understanding of the architecture discipline, thus further promote the discipline to be mature, systematic and scientific.

Key words: architecture discipline, conceptual system construction, architecture term system