Successfully held on 11-12 December 2021, an international forum planned and organized by Southeast University (China) was dedicated to construction history. The Forum invited well-known scholars from China and abroad to give talks and share comments on the relationship between practice and theory in architectural activities. All of the eight lectures presented in the Forum were eventually transformed to research articles published in the Special Column “On the Interaction Between Construction & Thoughts” in the Chinese journal The Architect, No.218, 2022.