During the interwar period, the Institut d’Urbanisme at the Université de Paris (IUUP) was established as an international benchmark for the teaching of urbanism. The institution is prestigious, not only because of the creation of its multidisciplinary and scientific education, but also because of its professors’ recognition in both theoretical and practical fields. This article outlines some aspects about the context in which several Colombian students atended the IUUP during the first decades of its existence, and some features of two students’ (Carlos Martínez Jiménez and Severo Reyes Gamboa) theses are analyzed.