On Sunday, The Richard Meier Model Museum will open to the public at Mana Contemporary, in Jersey City. Formerly housed in a 3,600-square-foot space in Long Island City, the museum, as well as the architect’s personal studio and research library, now occupies a 15,000-square-foot space in the sprawling contemporary art space.

The opening is part of the January Mana Fest, which includes a variety of exhibitions, video and dance performances from 1 to 6 pm, as well as open studios. A free shuttle bus will run every half hour, from 12:30 to 4:30, from Milk Studios at 450 West 15^th Street [reserve].

Richard Meier’s 150-plus model collection spans the architect’s entire career, going back to the 1965 Smith House, one of the early projects which established his reputation. Highlights of the model museum include large-scale study models of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. The research center will be open to students and practicing architects and will serve  as an incubator and educational resource for emerging architects and designers.

Richard Meier. Photo: Mark Seliger

A gallery will rotate exhibitions of his art, such as prints, sketches, renderings, photographs, and sculptures. The architect’s daughter, furniture designer Ana Meier, joins the space with The Ana Meier Furniture Showroom

Richard Meier recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of his firm in New York City. In 1984, Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, considered the field’s highest honor, and he has been the youngest individual architect ever to be awarded this honor. Meier’s international body of work is acclaimed for its abstraction, formal clarity, and uncompromising all-white facades. The absence of color is an intrinsic characteristic of his works; his philosophy is grounded in using light as the main material to give form to his precise, linear architecture.

Founded by artists Eugene Lemay and Yigal Ozeri in 2011, Mana Contemporary is a 1.8 million square foot complex of artists' studios, fine art storage, performance spaces, exhibition galleries, and more, located at 888 Newark Avenue in Jersey City. Information. Information.