This paper focuses to figure out the ideological trend of Chinese contemporary architects in the process of modernization and socialist transformation of traditional architectural culture by means of analyses of architects discours published in "the Architectural Journal" in the 1950-1970s, which is often called as "the Period of Chairman Mao". Refering to the method of linguistics, the keywords of discours and its frequency used in architectural papers are indexed and counted by subjects, and then be classified into several categories in accordance with the axes of "social background-architecture-culture" and "architectural ontology-methodology-artistry". Through construction and transformation investigation, it is found that architectural thoughts in that period are based on the government policy, i. e., the combination of "function, economy and beauty" in architecture, and the criterion of these is socialism ideology and political propaganda. According to the movement of focuses of architects' discours following the pressure of ideology and mass movement, this period can be divided into 6 phases.
