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The influence of individuals in constructing the physical environment as well as the significant role of the physical environment on the behaviors of the individuals start with the environmental perception. Despite the fact that environmental perception is a subjective issue and it mainly works at the level of unawareness, its processing should be improved and elaborated for the designers. This can only be possible by adopting an explanatory research approach in order to reveal the reliable knowledge. At this point, dialectical approach can be presented as a critical method which affects the conceptual features of the design phenomenon by putting forward the necessary alternatives for the spatial design as well as by understanding the individual, social and cultural systems that are related to different design alternatives. In this respect, the major aim of the article is to emphasize the significance of basing the knowledge about environmental perception that the actors in the design process should acquire to the dialectical approach through a systematic framework which starts with the description and continues with appraising. With this purpose, the dialectics of the environmental appraisal was exemplified though different environmental designs. Hence, it was tired to be explained that environmental change and progress were inevitable, when the process of environmental perception was explained though the four relationships of the dialectical method.