The Archive
Marta Lonzi's entire life, after distancing herself from her radical positions of the Seventies, has been marked by the construction and affirmation of a subjective and conscious dimension in the creative process. Her documentary trace reveals, at the same time an "intimate or personal" archive, a "militant" archive" and a "professional" archive. To those who approach it, the choice to highlight their own archive.
The archive, then.
The Marta Lonzi archive has been deposited since 2017 at the Elvira Badaracco Foundation by will of her family. The archive is mainly linked to the performance of her profession as an architect, integrated by an intense activity as a lecturer and teacher in Italy and abroad, but also documents the network of her relationships with artists; and obviously with figures of feminism, within and outside the Rivolta Femminile group. Among the correspondance and documentation collected, the traces of a significant European "Gender" network in the field of architecture and design are particularly interesting.
Further information on the bibliography of and about Marta Lonzi and the history and description of her archive collection can be found in the inventory published on the Badaracco Foundation website https://www.fondazionebadaracco.it/archivi/archivio/?arch_a=41
The intese exchange in the group that gave life to the publishing company Scritti di Rivolta Femminile is documented in the archive of the same name, currently in private hands, soon to be deposited in the Elvira Badaracco Foundation.
Other documents concerning Marta Lonzi are preserved in the Carla Lonzi Collection, currently deposited at the Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation in Rome.
