Origins of Thought and Methods of Contextualism in Urbanism, Architecture and Fields Affecting the Two, From The 1960s to The Present

Concepts such as historical rupture, functionalism, international style, and standardization are all features of modernism. In general, the built environments according to modernism are alien to the existing context, and this alienation led to a fundamental critique of modern architecture and urban planning. With the advent of postmodernism, the need to pay attention to the field in different dimensions was emphasized by thought from different fields such as history, culture, philosophy, linguistics, environment, psychology, and phenomenology. But contextualism needs to be more carefully recognized, especially in relation to fields such as semiotics, semantics, and structuralism, as well as approaches such as traditionalism and ecology, which are its theoretical frameworks. Due to its various origins, the return to contextualism has been accompanied by changes in attitudes, dimensions, principles, and methods since the 1960s. The present study, by reviewing the influential ideas on contextualism in urban planning and architecture, seeks to identify the impact of various movements, approaches and paradigms in various fields in the period from 1960 to the present. The method of the present study is descriptive and by describing the ideas of contextualists in architecture and urban planning as well asrelated and progressive disciplines such as philosophy that are the source of the ideas of these two mentioned disciplines, it categorizes three main and distinct groups. The notion of contextualism has been investigated in closed and related fields to architecture, urban planning, and urban design such as philosophy, linguistics, and social studies. Three distinct categories are identified, the first is most influenced by the philosophy and linguistics of French thinkers; The second category, focuses more on history, culture, traditionalism, and ecology, and the third category, according to history, tradition, indigenous culture, and ecology, strives to coexist with the environment and converge with the principles Sustainable development has tried.