本论文对梁思成中国建筑史研究的探讨分为“建国前”和“建国后”两个部分。对于其建国前学术成果的研究已较为全面和深入，分别从各个侧面归纳了梁思成中国建筑史研究在思想、观念和方法上的表现特征，对其建筑史研究的内在动因也有较为深入的探索。但是，这类研究更多地强调对梁思成的建筑史研究成果进行剖析，鲜有关注同时代国内外学者同类建筑史研究著作的比较研究。本论文的第一部分拟将梁思成的中国建筑史研究与同时代建筑史家如日本学者伊东忠太、乐嘉藻以及王璧文的中国建筑史研究成果进行比较，试图还原二十世纪三、四十年代中国建筑史研究的整体学术环境，以历史的视角重新审视梁思成早期中国建筑史研究在学术思想、基础理论层面的创新及突破。梁思成于抗战时期完成的《中国建筑史》一书可谓中国建筑史研究中的一座里程碑，但并不能完全代表梁思成整个学术生涯中对中国建筑史所进行的全部思考。梁思成建国后的中国建筑史研究是一个全新的阶段，他积极主动地运用唯物史观对中国建筑史进行全面的研究和探讨，作为最早发表此类文章的学者在新的政治环境下其研究思路也有一些调整和变化，但新的理论视角与他既有的学术理论体系之间出现了一些矛盾，这些矛盾在1955年对梁思成“资产阶级唯美主义的复古主义建筑思想”的错误批判中被过分放大，导致了其在中国建筑史研究领域的学术地位的变化，而最终影响了改革开放后及至今日该学科的学术研究理路。本论文的第二部分拟就梁思成建国后的中国建筑史研究进行全面的回顾，梳理其建筑史学思想在该时期的调整和变化，进而反思中国建筑史研究在该时期的特殊境遇及其深远影响。
Liang Sicheng’s study on the Chinese Architectural History can be divided in two periods: before and after the PRC （the People's Republic of China） was founded. We can also divide the studies on Liang’s historical thoughts into two parts.The studies on Liang’s Architectural History before the PRC were very comprehensive. Some of there mentioned the theoretical bases, the characteristics and the motive force of his work, Most of these studies didn’t pay attention to the comparative research between different books written by the other scholars, such as Chuta Ito, Le Jiazao and Wang Biwen. The first part of this essay was going to complete this comparative study in order to point out the contributions which were made by Liang and Lin in this academe area.Although The Chinese Architectural History was highly recommended as the landmark of Liang Sicheng’s research, it still couldn’t represent all his historical thoughts. The study after the PRC was in a totally new method: Liang Sicheng, as one of the first scholars who tried to use Historical Materialism in the study of Chinese Architectural History. But some conflicts occurred between his premier and the new theory. These conflicts were enlarged by the unfair animadvert on Liang’s bourgeois aestheticism in the 1955, that leaded to a very different treatment between Liang Sicheng and Liu Dunzhen’s theoretical thoughts. The second part of this essay was going to review all of Liang’s works in this period and some important facts, then tried to find out the great influence which was caused by the Historical Materialism on the research of the Chinese Architectural History.
