Awards and Publications - Maeryta Medrano

Awards	Maeryta Medrano	Founder and Principal, Gyroscope, Inc. maeryta@gyroscopeinc.com
	1990	Winner: Napa County Museum and Cultural Center Competition Competition Team: Maeryta Medrano: Architecture and Exhibition Design Fernau & Hartman Architects Marie Fisher: Interior Design Wallace Roberts & Todd: Landscape Architecture
	1987-88	John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship Award University of California at Berkeley; Department of Architecture Graduate Division. Traveled to Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and Scandinavia to study contemporary and exhibition design.
	1985	First Runner-up Cash Award: "Museum Competition 85" Newport Harbor Art Museum; Exhibition Design for "Critical Edge" and "Future Furniture".
	Selected Publications and press	San Francisco Chronicle "Once they were called museums. Now they're more like amusement parks. Don't bewilder today's museumgoer with facts and figures. Make it splash. Make it sizzle. Make it fun." July 19, 2003 - read the article InterActivity Interviews 2000, Solstice Press, Oakland, CA. 2000 Contact us directly by email or phone for a hard copy. Put 'interactivity 2000' in the subject line! Charles H. Howarth Jr. and Maeryta A. Medrano. Architecture and Exhibition Design: A Survey of Infrastructure. Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, Washington, DC, May 1997. Contact us directly by email or phone for a hard copy. Put 'Infrastructure' in the subject line! Progressive Architecture, “Napa Valley Museum Competition”, Thomas Fisher, August 1991. Zyzzyva, “A Museum of Light”, Heather Hendrickson, Art Editor, Fall Issue 1991. Architectural Record, “Bonauro Studio”, Karen Stein, April 1990. (Project Architect for I.O.O.A.) Philadelphia Inquirer, “China Between Revolutions”, March 9, 1990. “College of Environmental Design News”, University of California, Berkeley, Branner Winners, Fall 1987. “China Between Revolutions”: “New York Times Review”, July 1989; "The New Yorker", July 1989; "Newsday", July 1989; "New York", July 1989. “Soft Gold”: “SF Chronicle Review”, August 1984; “SF Examiner”, July 1984; “Oakland Tribune”, August 1984. “Planets and Pulleys: Studies of Class Visits to Science Museums”, Minda Borun and Barbara Flexer, Association of Science & Technology Center and The Franklin Institute, 1983.