In over 25 years at Temple Architecture, John James Pron has been teaching architectural design and graphics at all levels, and lectures on architectural history (ancient, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque to the present day) dealing with both the Western tradition as well as non-Western cultures. While he most frequently instructs at the second year level, his love of both design and architectural history surfaces in opportunities to teach design studios in Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse- classes that study the placement of new functions and new activities in the shells and interior fabrics of older buildings- preserving the unique qualities of their historic character while simultaneously responding to the changing challenges of contemporary living- the formal juxtaposing of new-to-old.

John is the recipient of three major academic honors: The Distinguished Faculty Award of the College Alumni Society of the (then) College of Engineering and Architecture (1981), the university-wide Lindback Award for Distinguished teaching (1986), and the Temple University Great Teacher Award- its highest honor (1995.)
In the past, John has led university-sponsored study tours of Italy and Greece. In the spring of 1996, John taught at the campus of Temple University Rome, Italy, and returned to Rome on a university-sponsored Study Leave in the spring of 2002 to complete research on his creative interests.  He served as Acting Department Chair from Aug 05 to Aug 06.

He is a practicing registered architect as serves as  Director of Design at his own architecture firm, Hospitality Design Group, Inc, in Chalfont, PA-  specializing in the design of new hotels as well as the adaptive-reuse renovation of older buildings- both in center city Philadelphia as well as Bucks County inns.   John is also a regional artist and currently co-director of the 3rd St Gallery on 2nd St in Old City, Philadelphia and where he regularly exhibits his drawings and design work, including a 1-person show “Citta-del di Roma: Touch and Go” (Sep 02) which proposed dragging the hidebound traditions of that city to confront the irresistible global issues of the 2nd millennium, part of a 2-person show “Cita-del of Brotherly Love: code-red architecture for Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia”  (Sep 04) that redesigned Penn’s Landing to question Homeland Security, freedom, gated communities- social satire in a metaphorical construct of what is right and wrong for America, and “Phorbidden City: EastWest BuddhistQuaker” theoretical visions of an increasingly dominant Asian influence on the Delaware Valley.  He is currently working on a show titled “Unsustainability” (for Sep 08) exploring an architecture that accepts- indeed celebrates- the inevitability of buildings and cities flooding and drowning.