Lectures on Buildings

Lectures on Buildings

This book, based on lectures delivered in London and Chicago, was originally published by Academic Press in 1989. It provides a clear and concise introduction to the theory of buildings, and its continued popularity has led the University of Chicago Press to publish a new edition in 2009. The earlier edition dealt with both spherical and affine buildings, and the new edition includes a chapter on twin buildings, which have become increasingly significant in recent years.

Lectures on Buildings

Spherical buildings are important for finite groups of Lie type, while affine buildings are applied in studying \(p\)-adic and arithmetic groups, and twin buildings come into their own for groups of Kac-Moody type. For a detailed discussion on buildings, see the appropriate page on this website.