Contextualism was a prominent featureof architecture and urban design. Contextual architecture, by the advent of postmodernism, became more important and developedits studies on human and socio-cultural aspects of the community. The context of a design includes itsfabric, history, society and culture in which the concept of culture itself encompasses many human and social phenomena. In general, we studycultural complexes by considering social and urban infrastructures. Thoughit is very common to see people who desire forprivacy and like to create and control their personal spaces,according to Rapoport, sometimestheyignoretheir physical comfort in order to satisfy their cultural needs. People can experience inside of the architectural spaces, so theirrelation tosuch spacesis more complicated than that ofartistic spacesof sculpture and painting. As suchday-to-day relationships provide amajor part of one\\\'s life; space becomes the ultimate goal of architecture. Consequently, cultural complexesplay an important role in the performance of the members of any society. By discussing a new approach to contextualism and culture in cultural complex design and also considering the current needs of the society,we can createa set of various spaces with different usages as a place for dialogue and social interaction between citizens.\\r\\nKeywords: Culture, Contextualism, Cultural complex

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