艺术设计教育在我国的历史相对较短。由于自身的特殊性,其教学模式和教学方法与其它的高等教育相比有着很大的差异。尤其是艺术设计教育完全是工业化之后的产物,是介于艺术与科学之间边缘性极强的专业教育。虽然我国从20世纪50年代就开始有了专门从事艺术设计教育的高等院校——中央工艺美术学院（现清华大学美术学院）,发展至今全国也有上百所院校开办了艺术设计类专业,但就整体水平而言还处于参差不齐的一般层次。借鉴国外成功经验就成为艺术设计教育工作者的重要课题。在20世纪80年代笔者有机会到美国的大学本科进行了一年多的室内设计专业进修。进入21世纪为争创世界一流,清华大学美术学院又组织了大规模的出国专业教 Art design education in our country’s history is relatively short. Because of its own particularity, its teaching mode and teaching methods are quite different from other higher education. Art education, in particular, is a product of industrialization completely and is a highly specialized professional education between art and science. Although China began to have a higher education institution specializing in art design education since the 1950s, the Central Academy of Arts and Design (now the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University), up to now, hundreds of colleges and universities in the country have also started the art design specialty, But at the general level is still in a jagged general level. Learning from the successful experience of foreign countries has become an important issue of art design educators. In the 1980s, I had a chance to study undergraduate in the United States for more than a year in interior design. Into the 21st century to create a world-class, Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts also organized a large-scale professional teaching abroad