通过对南方地域中最丰富变化且当前开发建设力度最大的江南与华南地区传统建筑的研究，探索南方古建筑谱系及其地理区划特色，以此作为建筑基础理论研究——中国建筑谱系与区划研究的先行部分，着眼于开创传统建筑研究的新领域和新方法，弥补以往建筑史研究中对南方的空缺与不足，同时也为当前南方古建筑保护及城市地方特色的建设，提供理论基础。

This item belongs to the regional building research of the basic architecture theories, which emphasizes in the traditional southern buildings that represented by south of the Yangtze River and south of China. We analyzed the course of the developing and blending of its culture of architecture, searched the pedigree transfer and the regional character of the ancient southern buildings, studied the rules of its development and evolvement as well as the feature and extension to abroad of its pedigree with a view to exploit a new field and method of the research of the traditional buildings, making it to be an important method of the consummation and enrichment of the research of the history and theory of Chinese buildings. In this item, we got a relatively thorough and abundant harvest in the exploring and innovation of the research of the southern regional buildings, stoke up a knowledge truss of the regional pedigree of the traditional buildings according to region primary, get an analyse and summary of the system headstream of the traditional southern buildings and the basis of the analyse, solved some problems related in the research of the architecture history in the south of the Yangtze River and we had the communion and cooperation with the foreign researchers. The main harvests of the research are: 2 monographs printed, 9 disquisitions published, 5 masters' papers, 1 prize gained.