The exhibition A Spirit at Work: Architecture and Czech Politics 1918–1945 is based on an analysis of the political visions that influenced society in the First Czechoslovak Republic and the Second World War, and looks at how these visions were reflected in the era’s public architecture. Through examples of planned and realized representational buildings for government institutions, embassies, schools, healthcare facilities, and other public agencies, the exhibition explores the search for an architectural vocabulary that might express the values of a democratic state and reflect its economic and cultural successes.