本文從「主．匠興造」象所代表的明、清二季中國南方民居建築的營造本題出發，探隱含於其住居型式背後那「因人」的主體因素。針對主．匠興造的模式，以營造行動及質化特質一事，作為營造主體的動力來源，在這相涉的主體自身與外在條件兩端，藉由興造過程中「能主」的人格特質，發現到因人的主體意識所自我援引之特定的觀物傾向及其自然人化象。有鑒於能主的匠作王體立場之曖昧與複雜，乃從工夫人的「慎獨」意志之意識狀態開始，從住居的型式與倫理之雙邊關係中逐步探討其在意義階層的具體實踐意涵。如此，院於建築現象和完型構成兩端，我們可以建立一條通往匠家們肆應於主的技術倫理，以及最終型式下的產物之存有狀態的規律。

　　　　　This study is aimed at investigating the ambiguous and complicated relationship between the patron and the craftsman who together construct the tradition of the ordinary houses in Southern China during the period of the Ming and the Ching Dynasties. The author believes that this investigation will uncover the decisive factors hidden in the traditional houses. These factors are "subjective", depending on man's will, not materialistic or typological, as seen in the earlier studies. The ethics and the built form are seen as the keys to discover the subjective characters of the traditional houses. The author thus constructs a discursive hierarchy to show how the subjectivity works in the traditional houses: the meaning system, the institution, the model form. Between the two extremes of architecture as a phenomenon as a modeling, this study will point to a new direction to interpret the "pattern" of the traditional houses. From the perspective of the subjectivity, this study demonstrates the value of the traditional houses in the social process of dynamic coordination as well.