A piece of that environmental understanding is local to the built structure itself: the ways we experience architectural objects may contribute to how we comprehend, and interact with, those objects.
His primary aid has been transparency: the ease with which we comprehend the layers of deliberation and chance that give visual life to his surfaces.
But how should we comprehend that terrible collective encounter with death that was World War One?
How are we to comprehend a movement with no single leader, a wide range of demands and 2,464 Occupy "communities" in different cities and towns across the globe?
There is also a sense of power, as you comprehend, with sudden clarity, the dense and complex landscape of the modern city.
The fiercely outspoken Dennis, you see, is just getting started in his campaign for justice — or, as his boyfriend, Gregory (played with strikingly sad diffidence by Jimmy King), begins to comprehend with horror, for vengeance.
At the time, the energy minister Josh Frydenberg had said there was a "strong moral case that the green activists sometimes don't comprehend" with coal, when more than 1 billion people lacked access to electricity and more than 2 billion "are using wood and dung for their cooking", a practice the World Health Organisation linked to 4.3 million premature deaths.
One thing that's easy to comprehend with the Aviator is its smooth, powerful acceleration.
The spiritual world is far more vast than that which appears as our physical world, and it is even difficult (if not impossible) to comprehend with our feeble minds.
Generally not misled by grand illusions nor the calls of nihilism, the Chinese and Italian minds comprehend with an unparalleled acuity the interconnected ups and downs of historical cycles and fully appreciate, when it manifests itself, the sign of genius unaffected by the passage of time.
