2002-2003 

Fellowship for Advanced Research in Islamic Art and Architecture, Aga Khan Program, Harvard University

2002 

Turkish Studies Association, M.Fuat Koprulu Book Prize (for Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic)

2002 

The Society of Architectural Historians, Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for the most distinguished work of scholarship (for Modernism and Nation-Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic)

2000-2001 

Graham Foundation and Institute of Turkish Studies Grants for publication subvention of Modernism and Nation Building

1994-1995 

Social Science Research Council Grant

1993-1996 

Ford International Career Development Chair, MIT

1993-1994 

Aga Khan Program Outreach Grant
(For organizing the interdisciplinary conference "Rethinking the Project of Modernity in Turkey", 10-13 March 1994 at MIT)

1991-1992 

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Grant, MIT
(Research proposal on the work of Bruno Taut in Turkey, 1936-1938)

1986-1987 

Aga Khan Awards for Architecture Grant
(For the book on Turkish architect Sedad Hakki Eldem)

1983-1984 

Funding from RIBA and British Council in Turkey
(Research on British architecture, Architectural Association, London, UK)

1979-1982

 Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for Graduate Study in the U.S.
(For the PhD Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)