Container, as a new architectural form, has only been in people's field of vision for more than 30 years. However, this unique construction method is developing rapidly, which is attracting more and more attention from experts and scholars, and getting more favor from ordinary people. Through the longitudinal comparative analysis of the development process of container architecture, the development process of foreign container architecture can be qualitatively divided into four stages from the aspects of the number of containers, the complexity of overlapping, professionals and applicable functions, etc.: