Mien Ruys

[7] During World War II she studied engineering in Delft, but then returned home to work and experiment at her father's company.

Built entirely in a modernist style, the village was designed by De 8 and Opbouw, two architecture associations that profiled themselves as advocates of the so-called Nieuwe Bouwen.

[13] Ruys, in collaboration with Wim Boer, designed the green spaces of Nagele, including the surrounding windbreak, central village meadow and cemetery.

With her husband, Theo Moussault[1] (a former owner of the Amsterdam weekly De Groene Amsterdammer[8]), she started a quarterly magazine in 1954, Onze eigen tuin ("Our own garden"), which is still considered one of the most creative Dutch publications in this field.

She is responsible for the widespread use in the Netherlands of old railroad ties and gravel tiles, and her style is characterized as "clear, direct, and barren.

[19] Mien Ruys has influenced many contemporary landscape architects, among others Piet Oudolf and Jacqueline van der Kloet.

[8] The foundation also broke with the Moerheim Nursery to which it was still connected and built its own entrance; with the help of volunteers and donors it became financially solvent again in 2008.