What is most remarkable about the work of Louis Kahn is his achievement of perfect harmony through geometry and natural light. His regrettably few projects transcend the divisions of mass and scope: from the monumental Salk Institute and the incredible government buildings in Dacca to the house he built for Margaret Esherick, a single woman in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, his buildings are imbued with the deeply felt spirit of place.
Richard Meier

Kahn’s play of light and exploration of space continues to inspire new generations of architects.
Zaha Hadid

It’s the perfect house for a creative person. If I lived there—and I wish I did—I’d have my Mac, a few books and a coffee maker. Sun falling in a high room, treetops through the window, a fire in a great hearth, what else do you need?
Nathaniel Kahn, Louis Kahn’s son
and filmmaker of “My Architect”

For any architect educated in the latter half of the 20th century, Louis Kahn was in the pantheon of great architects. His manipulation of primary forms using fundamental mathematics transcended the limits of categorization in a timeless way.
richard gluckman

The Esherick House is Kahn’s most important realized residential commission and one of only a few that were actually built during the course of his career. The house illustrates his formal ideology following his return to the United States from Rome after having been made a Fellow of the American Academy there in 1953. The window articulation and symmetrical entrance reveal design concepts employed later by Kahn in his public, institutional, and civic architecture, where major and minor façade fenestrations make a monumental impression in their overall composition.
Joseph Rosa

As a student I was always mesmerized by its playful graphic geometry of the windows and the deceptive simplicity of its plan. It was a real surprise to see the care and joy of the materials still very much intact and it being lived in as I’m sure Kahn would have approved. There were two particularly ecstatic moments for me. Firstly was ascending the beautifully crafted, Japanese- or Shaker-esque, staircase with its simple timber balustrade, which overlooks the living room. The second was opening the shutter of the window in the library where knowledge and nature seemed to freeze into one image. The Esherick House is definitely one of Kahn’s most important works which defined lessons he’d go on to use in later projects.
David Adjaye