| Major Awards | Date |
| Winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the project Islamic cemetery Altach (cemetery by Bernardo Bader, prayer space by Azra Aksamija) | Fall 2013 |
| Winner of the International 2012 Piranesi Award for Architecture, for the project Islamic cemetery Altach (cemetery by Bernardo Bader, prayer space by Azra Aksamija) | Fall 2012 |
| Other Awards | Date |
| Nomination for the Prix Ars Electronica Award 2013 (category: “Digital Communities”), Linz, Austria | Spring 2013 |
| Nomination for The Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture for the project Islamic cemetery Altach (architecture by Bernardo Bader, art by Azra Aksamija) | Fall 2012 |
| Nomination for the DETAIL Prize 2012 for the project Islamic cemetery Altach (architecture by Bernardo Bader, art by Azra Aksamija) | Fall 2012 |
| Harold and Arlene Schitzer Prize in the Visual Arts 2006 (3rd pr.), MIT Council for the Arts | Spring 2006 |
| Honorable Mention at the 6th Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture | Fall 2003 |
| Competitive Research Fellowships | Date |
| Research Award provided by the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) for book project | Spring 2013 |
| Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Tufts University Center for the Humanities, 2yr (awarded, but declined) | Spring 2011 |
| Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, awarded by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (12 months), Princeton, NJ | 2009-2010 |
| Kress Travel Fellowships in the History of Art, awarded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, NY | Summer 2009 |
| Krupp Foundation Fellowship, awarded by the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (12 months), Cambridge, MA | 2008/2009 |
| MIT / Barakat Foundation Grant (project grant) | 2007/2008 |
| Hyzen Fellowship, MIT (6 months) | Fall 2007 |
| Travel Grant 2005-2006, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture MIT | Spring 2005 |
| Aga Khan Fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4 years) | 2004-2007/10 |
| Promotion by The Office of The Austrian Federal Chancellor (BKA) | Fall 2002 |
| Princeton University Graduate Fellowship (18 months) | 2002-2004 |
| Styrian Provincial Government Fellowship, Department for Science and Research, Graz, Austria | Summer 2002 |
| Stipendium für kurzfristiges wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Ausland (4 months), Technical University Graz, Graz, Austria | Spring 2001 |
| Socrates/ Erasmus – Mobilitätsstipendium (12 months), Graz, Austria | 1999-2000 |