FIU Architecture's 28th Annual Scholarship Design Competition + Water-Thon Maidique Campus.
For the past 28 years, FIU Department of Architecture students have participated-in and celebrated Walk on Water, a race founded and orchestrated by Professor Jaime Canaves. Each student designs and constructs shoes that will allow him/her to walk the length of the Green Lake at the heart of FIU’s Modesto A. This event has turned into an annual FIU Fall semester activity with thousands of spectato
11/07/2024
Walk on Water 2024 was one for the books 🌊 Congratulations to this year’s winners Juan Goya and David Mora - Team Bullet Bills! Our architecture students really showed their with their shoes and their hard work undoubtedly paid off.
10/29/2024
Save the Date!
Get ready for a memorable showdown at FIU’s annual Walk on Water event on Thursday, November 7! ✨
This year’s race is extra special as we celebrate 35 incredible years of this one-of-a-kind tradition.
Gather with us to cheer on the teams competing for the grand prize and for the glory of completing this thrilling challenge.
You won’t want to miss it! See you there.
12/19/2022
Our iconic collaborations with and 😍featuring the Paul Cejas Architecture building colors and WOW lizard🦎
12/19/2022
WOW material distribution day 2022🤍
11/03/2022
Thank you all for coming to our 2022 Walk on Water event!🦎
Stay tuned for shoe pictures, interviews, and more!
11/03/2022
Starting in two hours! ➡️ 11:30AM
Stay tuned for the announcement of our partners… hint: 🍪🍩
10/08/2022
Walk On Water 2022!🦎
Join us to celebrate the 50 years of FIU and the 25 years of the FIU School of Architecture💦
-Student content coming soon-
11/20/2020
When you can’t use the university lake to Walk on Water, you build it yourself. Student Maryson Winklaar created a board game based on the our real life event. In order to win the game, one must cross all 4 our their colored shoes through the slots and make it to the university library! Let the fun begin 🎲
10/31/2020
Happy Halloween! 🎃 check out our scariest looking shoe ever 👀 made of boat fiber glass but looking like fresh flesh 😷🦵🏼🧠
10/29/2020
Class of COVID-19. A little social distance never stopped a halloween class party... 👻🎃☠️
10/14/2020
Where ideas begin // with our students elaborate sketches for their Walk On Water shoes! ✍🏼 We love to see it
10/09/2020
This we can’t help but remember some of our favorite sketches from our past events. Apart from the contestants walking on water, every year we encourage our spectator students to show off their art skills while they simultaneously cheer on their classmates – capturing the true essence of the race. 🏃🏻♂️✍🏼
Tag and DM us your favorite memories of Walk On Water!
