The Peak - 1983. Image Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Between June 23 and August 30, 1988, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York held an exhibition titled Deconstructivist Architecture , as part of a program "conceived to examine current developments in architecture." Curated by Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley , it focused on the contemporary work of seven international architects : Coop Himmelblau, Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Bernard Tschumi, and a young Zaha M. Hadid. At 37 years old, her work was presented to the world as an example of "the emergence of a new sensibility in architecture." The material on display was not a model or a blueprint, but a painting, The Peak , submitted for an architectural competition in Hong Kong in 1983.…