Techwood Homes was designed by Georgia Tech alumnus and architect Flippen David Burge with landscape architecture by Edith Henderson. Although it had been created to replace Atlanta's Techwood Flats "housing slum", an integrated shantytown in the 1920s and early 1930s, it eventually became synonymous with "urban blight" during the 1970s and 1980s and was demolished in 1996 before the 1996 Summer Olympics. It and neighboring Clark Howell Homes are now a mixed-use area called Centennial Place.