New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-23
Organization Of Association.

Organization Of As.ociation.
PRAcTICAL DfTAILs.
We have cndcayorci to give, in cur last three
articles. some idea of the Edice OF an Association
We have shown ,ha, people can have their private
apartments. and live a retired and independently
in Association as they now can in their separate
houses, to which would be added the immense adj
yantagcs of the former system.
There are very great disadvantages connected
with the system of isolated households. or system
which renders it necessary for every family to have
a separate house. We will enumcratc n very few
of them.
Separate house, very expensive. on account
of the immense number Of u,e,cs, walls. kitchens.
cellars. garret. chimncys. l.re-places, cistern,.
pumps. &c. which are required there is no
economical system for Nesting and supplying them
with water there are great cares and yeXatohs
attendant upon overseeing and managing them, to
which is to be added faiihlc..nc.s of servants -
there are no proper places aud conycnence' tor
the healthy exercise and agreeable occupation o
children, and are in every way entirely unsmted
to them they absorb tn time and attention OF
wsmcn in n rognd Of petty household cares, which
have 10 he gone through with daily and separately
in every house; the women are 10y this means al-
most entirely debarred from dcyoting themselves
To higher and nobler pursuits and from taking
healthy outdoor exercise; and the constant con-
inement to which they are subjected aillicts them
with physical debility and various diseases ont Of
which grow itcmpcr. fretfulness. melancholy.
isl a. and intellectual uro,,ra,top
Our houses are also unhealthy. particularly in
cities, because with each there i. connected sinh
of filth, AMI because sinking cutters run before
them In the cities, they are without foliage and
a free circulation Of air, and in the country thcy
are solitary and admit OF no extended social re-
lations.
We could increase greatly this h-i Of defects,
system of isolated households i. not the high; of
Perfection = is generally supposed People are
50 blinded by habit and prejudice that they DO not
see the glaring defects OF the present system Of
separate houses; we must show them these de-
fects. AMI induce them 10 examine mpar,ially the
combined architecture of Association, which they
will not DO readily long az they are pre-
If the Reader wishes to understand fully the ,,i-
periority of the combined and military architecture
of Association over the picce-meal and fragmental
architecture of our civilized Societies, let him in
stitute comparison. both as regards convenience
and economy, between the Edificc ofan Association
and mass Of three hundred houses Of the present
order, inhabited by many families.
will fo,v ~ ,l,a
will put the Reader upon the night track. Three
hundred houses require, if we take those of per-
sons rolerably well of, thres hundred cellars
kitchens and garrets-iivc or six hundred chin
ncys-twelyc to fifteen hundred ire-piaces, stoves
OF gra;es--a Thousand ct more sisir-cases-three
or four thousand little windows, that seem to gasp
Tor air--as many d0or., with locks upon taom-a
thousand pantrics-an immense number Of useless
division walls coal-yaults, ci,terns, &c.-thrce
hundred sinks and useless constructions and con-
lryanccs of every kind.
The Edifce OF an Association. the contrary.
would require but six Or eight chimneys-yery few
crate. and fire. places, lis door, and window. would
be large and ary-its star-ca,cs spacious and con-
vcnieni and every thing would be good and beauti
tai, combined with the greatest economy, which
uld result naturally from lis system OF Cni'y
aud Combination
We will close our remarks upon the Ldihces OF
Association with few observations upon the spirit
OF the Architecture Of our present Societies, and
the spirit of that of the new Social Order, which
we advocate; We viii then proceed to explain the
system Of Property.
The spin, of Society i, stamped upon is Ar
chtcc,ure.
The Architecture OF our Socictic, bears upon II
the impress Of their Seh.hness, Poverty, Vice,
Crime and Discord. They have in consequence
their little and isolated dwellings which are the
emblem OF the SOLITARY, selfish and di'tra'tiul
spirit which now rcgns; they have their Jail'
and Peni,entiaries. which are cmblems OF tie
perver,ion OF the human Passions and OF the moral
Degradation OF Man they have also their Poor
Houses. their Lunstic A.yuns, their ortiNcatlon'
and Nayies their Dungeons Sca,io.d, and Guillo-
tines Could the Social ta.enc,s and Subversioa
which now reign be reflected more faithfully than
j, j. in present architectural constructions
Association will have it, Arrhaecture,-and 1t
will be an Architecture OF Combination, Unity aud
HARMONY When Men are associated, when Unity
of Interests exist. and when Aiiuence, Education
and Urbanity OF manners are genera,-then VII.
one va, and elegant kdince replace hundreds oil
the isolated and miserable constructions oi our
civilized Societies and when the human Passions
are rightly directed and developed, and are u'eiay
employed, and the Energy OF tse W odd il directed
to great and noble un1ertakings,-t VIII our
Scaiiolds. Prisons Poor-Houses, and tor'ihca'ioh'
and Nayics. which are now 50 necessary, be iou"d
useless, and done away with.
All the varieties and kind, OF buildings neceS'af!
70 Nan.-.uch =. private Residence Churches
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